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• ARTICLE_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place Staff
• ARTICLE_POSTED_ON: Jul 08, 2015
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• Category : Art & Culture
• Description : <strong>Miu is a Haitian singer who is on the rise of her career. She discovered her talent for singing at the age of 9 and embraced it as a career after participating in a music contest. She writes her own songs and performs in concert halls and at private events</strong>.

Overview

• Miu

  Miu is a Haitian singer who is on the rise of her career. She discovered her talent for singing at the age of 9 and embraced it as a career after participating in a music contest. She writes her own songs and performs in concert halls and at private events.

  "When I sing, I feel that I am complete, that I'm doing something for myself, something that I like, that I'm not doing it only to please everybody else," said Miu.

  "What inspires me is everything that happens in my life, everything I see, everything I experience and of the people I see around me experiencing."

  As a true artist Miu is sensitive to what happens to people around her.

  Helping Deported Haitians at the Haitian-Dominican border

  One day, Miu received a message on WhatsApp about a fundraising for a group of 80 Haitians that got deported from the Dominican Republic and were still at the Haitian border. A nearby school offered to house them, and a group of volunteers decided to come together and raise first necessity supplies for these people.

  Miu offered to make a donation. A day later she was invited to perform as part of this fundraising event that took place at Presse Cafe in Pétion-Ville, a town above Port-au-Prince, on June 26th.

  "Haitians and Dominicans always have had their issues since a long time and it's a very old story. I can't put all the blame on them, but I'm sure that there could be some ways that are less drastic to respond to the situation," said Miu.

  Miu singing for the Fundraising event in support of Haitians deported from the Dominican Republic

  "It is surely unfair. When you see some people that were born there (in the Dominican Republic), they can't even speak Creole, and you just dump them here... they don't know where to go, they don't have family here, that's tough."

  Being an agent of change

  Miu believes in doing good and supporting social causes. She also works with an association called CAFGH doing trainings in different communities.

  "I am a type of person that likes to give back. At CAFGH we believe that the change of a society is made through education, through what we do."

  She also believes that art can bring change.

  "It's easier for someone to get a message through a song, than it is through anything else."

  It's pretty tough

  As much as she loves what she does, Miu says it's not always easy to be an artist in Haiti.

  "It is pretty tough because we don't have a music industry that is organized. I cannot even say that we have a music industry because it's so disorganized. The thing is that the singer is everything. The singer is the agent, sometimes manager, sometimes the event planner, sometimes the sound engineer. You have to control every single aspect. That's the main problem, but we deal with it."

  She continues: "But I consider life as a fight and the music business is like an everyday fight, like I can imagine it could be everywhere else in the world. It's a little bit complicated because there's no law, there's no organization. It's like everybody just does what the people before them did."

  Future aspirations

  In terms of her future, all Miu asks for is to be able to continue to do what she loves.

  "I need something very simple. I want to live with what I'm doing. That's all I'm asking for," said Miu.