Richie zenglen biography
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ZENGLEN
It was the 80’s, a quiet suburb of Port-au-Prince, where three friends who were destined to make history in Haitian music met. Every afternoon, a young Brutus would sit on his front porch and play the guitar. Garry Didier Perez, and his friend Patrick Martineau, often noticed him and one day invited him to come over Patrick’s house. They would meet every afternoon to listen to all genres of music and interpret their favorites. During one of their rehearsals, some beer bottles fell off an amplifier that was vibrating and shattered into a million pieces. The guys laughed at the fact that Patrick would have a hard time cleaning up the many tiny pieces off the granulated floor. They all exclaimed ZENGLEN (which means tiny pieces of broken glass) and from that day on this was their band's name.
In 1989, the trio recorded "Koule Tan" (the color of time). Once completed, they took some tapes to several radio stations where hosts and listeners would become fans and
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Biography
Richie was born holding drumsticks. At the age of 6 he was banging on every tin can in his house. In grade school he sat on a complete drum set for the first time. He was 11 years old and was made music leader.
He put together a group he called “Power X” with the members of his graduating class. They recorded 3 songs that were played over and over on the local radios. In 1990 they also wrote a jingle for 4VKB Radio in Cap Haitien that they continue to use today.
When he graduated from college, Richie traveled to the US where he entered the university to complete his studies in music technology. He was never interested in Haitian music. His style was punk and he played heavy metal. Following an experience with a Jamaican group where he could not get use to their smoking habits, Richie decided to try playing compas. In 1992 he put together the group “Tapaj” they lasted 4 years.
His friend Brutus co-founder of Zenglen asked him to join the group in 1997. H