Haitian songwriter, singer and guitarist Beethova Obas was born on March 25,
1964. He was the son of painter Charles Obas, who was murdered when he was just
five years old. Named Beethova after the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, he
learned to play guitar with his father's instrument, and in 1988 won the Prix
Découvertes RFI (Radio-France International), which enabled him to record his
first album Le Chant de la Liberté (1990). Invited on tour by the Martinican
group Malavoi, he shot to fame with his second album Si... (1993), tinged with
zouk, ballads, Caribbean rhythms and bossa...