A rhythm-centric style of music that originated in Saint-Pierre, Martinique. It fuses bélé and French ballroom dance steps with African rhythms. Two main types of French antillean biguine can be identified based on the instrumentation in contemporary musical practice, called the drum biguine and the orchestrated biguine.
Biguine
Biguine
Biguine
A rhythm-centric style of music that originated in Saint-Pierre, Martinique. It fuses bélé and French ballroom dance steps with African rhythms. Two main types of French antillean biguine can be identified based on the instrumentation in contemporary musical practice, called the drum biguine and the orchestrated biguine.