Dance music of Haiti. It is a string-based style played on the lute, guitar, horn section, piano, and other string instruments, unlike the accordion-based merengue, and is generally sung in Haitian Creole and French, as well as in English and Spanish. Méringue was heavily influenced by the contredanse from Europe and then by Afro-Caribbean influences from Hispaniola.
Méringue
Méringue
Méringue
Dance music of Haiti. It is a string-based style played on the lute, guitar, horn section, piano, and other string instruments, unlike the accordion-based merengue, and is generally sung in Haitian Creole and French, as well as in English and Spanish. Méringue was heavily influenced by the contredanse from Europe and then by Afro-Caribbean influences from Hispaniola.