NE2P hosts intimate chat with popular kompas singer
Kompas star Roberto Martino of Miami-based band T-Vice will be the next conversationalist scheduled for the ever popular “A Conversation with…” series, hosted by Northeast Second Avenue Partnership (NE2P). The event is set for next Friday, April 8, starting 6 p.m. at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex.
Roberto Martino is the lead singer and band leader for T-Vice, composing hit music with brother Reynaldo Martino. The band has help to revolutionized the genre, blending multiple influences such reggae, merengue and electronica, and has helped spread kompas around the work with several international performances across the Caribbean, the U.S. and Europe. The group is loved for such hits as “Sensation, “Timidite, and “Innocent.” Both Roberto and Reynaldo are the sons of renowned Haitian lead guitarist Robert Martino of classic kompas band, Top-Vice – which originally inspired T-Vice’s name as an ode to their father.
The Conversation Series is part of a monthly program highlighting talented Haitian-American professionals, as they “share their stories and life lesson with the community,” says Executive Director Northeast Second Avenue Partnership, Joann Milord. Recent past speakers include DJ and record producer Michael Brun, new media publisher of the Haitian American and L’unionsuite Wanda Gilles, and marketing guru for Rick Ross, Lex Pierre-Louis
