Beken, born Jean-Prosper Deauphin, sings songs about despair and redemption that resonate deeply with Haitians, especially in times of tragedy.

Jasmin Joseph, born of peasant stock on November 23, 1923 in Grande River du Nord, Haiti. As a teen-ager he labored at the kiln near Mont Rouis about twenty-five miles from Port-au-Prince. This was

Stevenson Magloire (1963-1994) was a famous artist and painter  born on August 16, 1963 in Pétionville, Haiti. He was an important contributor to the School of Saint Soleil art movement. His paintings are bold and expressionistic, frequently incorporating people, birds, and Vodou  and Christian  symbolism. Magloire was named after Adlai Stevenson, a politician in the United States. Uncommon in Haiti, his given name was so frequently misspelled as "Stivenson" by registration clerks and school officials, that he eventually used that spelling himself. Magloire was the son of another famous Haitian artist, Louisianne Saint-Fleurant, and his brother, Ramphis, also chose art as an avocation. Already a collectable artist by the mid-1990s, Magloire was assassinated  on October 9, 1994. He was stoned to death by paramilitary  attachés of the Raoul Cédras military junta while walking on the street in Port-au-Prince. His death was memorialized by his friend, Richard A. Morse, in the ballad Ayizan, released by the rasin band RAM  on their second album, Puritan Vodou, in 1997.

In episode 557 of The Dawn and Drew Show, Dawn Miceli's sister found a painting by Magloire in the miscellaneous bin at Goodwill in West Bend, Wisconsin, purchased it for $1.49, and gave it to Drew Domkus.