Mimerose Beaubrun Explained

Mimerose P. "Manzè" Beaubrun (born November 13, 1956) is a Haitian musician and writer.

Born Mimerose Pierre[1] in Ouanaminthe, she received a diploma in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Université d'État d'Haiti.[2] Beaubrun is one of the lead singers and a founding member of the rasin band Boukman Eksperyans. She is married to another founding member, Theodore Beaubrun, a member of a notable family of Haitian entertainers.[3] [4] The couple have two children: Laura and Paul.[5]

She promotes Haitian culture,[6] including Haitian Vodou, and has extensively researched the system of communal living known as lakou.[7] Beaubrun is a mambo, or Vodou priestess.

She is the author of Nan Dòmi, récit d'une initiation vodou (2011), translated into English as Nan Dòmi: An Initiate’s Journey into Haitian Vodou (2013).[8] She is also co-author of the 1998 book Livre ouvert sur le développement endogène d’Haïti, translated into English as Open Book on the Endogenous Development of Haiti.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Beaubrun, Mimerose "Manzè" (1956–) . Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography . 2016 . 9780199935796.
  2. Web site: "Haiti: Then and Now" (HTN). Then. Haiti. Now. en. 2019-02-26.
  3. Web site: The Beaubruns: Haiti's First Family of Entertainment. 2011-10-23. Kreyolicious.com. en-US. 2019-02-26.
  4. Web site: Lolo Beaubrun: A Voice Of Hope In Haiti. NPR.
  5. Web site: The Beaubruns: Haiti's First Family of Entertainment. 2011-10-23. Kreyolicious.com. en-US. 2019-02-26.
  6. Web site: Mimerose P. Beaubrun. www.ventsdailleurs.fr. French. 2019-02-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20181101194132/http://www.ventsdailleurs.fr/index.php/les-auteurs/item/mimerose-p-beaubrun. 2018-11-01. dead.
  7. Web site: The Lakou System: A Cultural, Ecological Analysis of Mothering in Rural Haiti. wiseop-ayiti.org. 2019-02-26.
  8. Web site: Nan Dòmi: An Initiate's Journey into Haitian Vodou by Mimerose P. Beaubrun . Literature Today . November 2014.
  9. Web site: Mimerose Beaubrun. Miami Book Fair.

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