Emerante Morse

Emerante de Pradines Morse
Born
Emerante de Pradines

(1918-09-24)24 September 1918[1][2]: 0:11 
Rivière Froide, Haiti[1]: 163 
Died4 January 2018(2018-01-04) (aged 99)[3]
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Occupation(s)Singer, dancer and folklorist

Emerante Morse, also known as Emerante de Pradines Morse (born Emerante de Pradines; 24 September 1918 – 4 January 2018)[1][3][4] was a Haitian singer, dancer and folklorist, and the daughter of Haitian entertainer Auguste de Pradines (better known as Ti Candio or Kandjo).[5][6][7]

  1. ^ a b c Scherpf, Stephanie (2017). "Emerante de Pradines: The Birth of a Legend and the Making of a Tradition". Journal of Haitian Studies. 23 (1): 162–68. doi:10.1353/jhs.2017.0007. S2CID 171759944.
  2. ^ Haitian Women of History |Emerante de Pradines, Episode 9 (accessed 1 July 2017)
  3. ^ a b Malandre, Daphney Valsaint (8 January 2018). "Adieu Emerante de Pradines!". Le Nouvelliste (in French). Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Décès de l'une des plus grandes danseuses du folklore vaudou haïtien". Loophaiti.com. Archived from the original on 11 January 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  5. ^ Richard Morse (2016). 'Pradines, Auguste Linstant de (“Kandjo” or “Candio”)' in Knight, Franklin W.; Gates, Henry Louis Jr., eds. (2016). Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199935802. Retrieved 5 November 2017.; ISBN 9780199935796 This biographical article states that Emerante's father Candio was born in Paris, France, on 10 September 1879.
  6. ^ Averill, Gage (1997). A day for the hunter, a day for the prey: Popular music and power in Haiti. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226032931.
  7. ^ "Chapo Ba: Emerante de Pradines". Kreyolicious. Retrieved 30 July 2013.