| LC control no. | nr 91043170 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Charlemagne, Manno, 1948-2017 |
| Variant(s) | Chalmay, Manno, 1948-2017 Charlemagne, Emmanuel, 1948-2017 |
| Associated country | Haiti |
| Associated place | United States |
| Birth date | 1948-04-14 |
| Death date | 2017-12-10 |
| Place of birth | Port-au-Prince (Haiti) |
| Field of activity | Popular music |
| Affiliation | Fugees (Musical group) Les Remarquables (Musical group) Konbit Kalfou (Musical group) Marc Records (New York) |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Mayors Singers Musicians, Black |
| Found in | His Le poukwa, le kòman? 1989-: v. 1, t.p. (Manno Chalmay) p. 5, etc. (b. 4-14-1948; Haitian songwriter and singer; Manno Charlemagne; Emmanuel Charlemagne) Manno Charlemagne, pou lavie fleri, 2016 Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed January 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Charlemagne, Manno; political figure, angaje/protest musician, singer, mayor; born 1948 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He formed a Mini-Jazz group called Les Remarquables (1968); teamed up with singer Marco Jeanty and released their first record, Marco and Manno, on New York-based Marc Records (1978). He fled to Boston, where he released several albums including Konviksyon (1984) and Fini les Colonies (1985), and started a group called Konbit Kalfou in Haiti (1986). He was adviser to the minister of interior and defense of Haiti (1991); became mayor of Port-au-Prince (1995-1999); gave a rare public performance with Haitian American Hip-Hop group the Fugees (1997); appeared in the movie, The Truth About Charlie (2002)) Wikipedia, Feb. 12, 2018 (Joseph Emmanuel "Manno" Charlemagne (Apr. 14, 1948 - Dec. 10, 2017) was a Haitian political folk singer, songwriter and acoustic guitarist, political activist and politician; he recorded his political chansons in both French and in Creole; he lived abroad in exile twice, both during the 1980s and again during the years 1991-1994, when the country was ruled by a military junta led by Raoul Cédras) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manno_Charlemagne> |
| Associated language | fre hat |
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