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TI WILL: "Hi Pat,

I have a different view on how our honorable Shedly Abraham refered to the definition of "son lari". Most people in our community refer to "son lari" as a kout guita, or a solo/groove keyboard or whatnot. The real definition of "son lari" to me is "VERY COMMERCIAL". The public we (musicians) play for dont want to be convinced on their second or third listening.. The very first one MUST do the job in order for it to be "VERY COMMERCIAL". And "Very commercial" always lead to being "very popular".
Why most haitians apply the term "son lari" only to Kompa? As far as Mr. Ti Will is concerned the term "SON LARI" or "VERY COMMERCIAL" applies to multiple genres of music.
Let's take for example :

"Disco music"
Popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques. Disco became popular because of the "son lari" flavor Melodically speaking.
Pop music.. music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love.. The "Son lari" can come from any instrument, melody, or popular progression. (Se pa pou dat) is a perfect example of popular progression.

Rap music, hip-hop - genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged. Again all these genres of music share one thing in common "Popular/Commercial"

R&B (Rhythm and Blues) A combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians. That combination was also mixed with some "son lari" Rhythm and make R&B a money machine in the AMI.

Reggae - popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar... Reggae became one of the most popular music in the world for several reasons... But one thing for sure the commercial side helped a lot.

I could go on and on and on Brazilian Macumba, Rock n' Roll, Country music etc... They all have the potential of becoming very popular, and fruitful moneywise as soon as the "son lari" is added in the mixture.
Make no mistake about Bato (NYAL), La pesonn (Caribbean Sextet) Le nap fe lanmou (Mizik Mizik) were all very commercial with some kind of "Son lari"...

I did mention earlier that R&B became a money machine because the combination of Blues and Jazz with some rhythm, melody and contemporary flavors were all mixed to produce that very commercial sound... But yet Blues and Jazz are NOT as popular nor considered money making machines as seperate entity.

Bottom line! si mizik la rive sou moun/pep la seke li gen "son lari" ladan.

KM!
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[THEREALME]

The son lari crap is a marketing trick as simple as that and it works for some people not for the entire industry specially me because i'am from the 70's generation i believe there is no such sound of the street.[/code]
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THE REAL ME

[yanvaloo]

Ti will ap klere' wi laaaaaaa

Fe' yo we'w brother epi di boogie
mwen bzzzz ak Gabel pa guin tan pou
mwen Tempo laaaaaaaa


Everyone has there definition..but mwen
jwen lari aaaaaaaaaaa

Telman mwen jwen lariaaaa chack fwa groove
tombe' se goumin ...

Gon jan pou ye' wi laaaaaaaaaaaaa
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[Bega]

Why can't this kid just shut up and keep on playing whatever he thinks he knows how to play?

[Damily1988]

Tankou Deutsh ta di..paleanpil.com.tout neg nan HMI lan konya gen foli moutre yo konnen ou dimwen vle pase pou philosophe.eske yo te mande misye explikasyon de afe world mizik..smh..