Emeline Michel

Emeline Michel is internationally acclaimed as Haiti’s “dancing ambassador” and a singular voice for hope, joy, and cultural pride. Renowned for fusing pop, jazz, blues, and traditional Haitian rhythms into captivating, deeply moving songs, Michel’s charismatic stage presence and virtuoso vocals enchant audiences.

• Global Sound, Haitian Soul: Michel blends native Haitian compas and rara music with jazz, pop, and blues, performing in Creole, French, and English.
• Deep Roots: Her music celebrates perseverance, gratitude, and reverence for the present moment, all wrapped in lush arrangements and energetic live shows.
• Charting Her Own Path: Michel continues to inspire new generations. Her music showcases soulful backing vocals, Haitian percussion, lively trumpets, and more—delivering a poetic, uplifting message with every note. Hailed by The New York Times as “the diplomat of music,” Emeline Michel is both a master entertainer and a living cultural bridge.

Special Guest Melanie CharlesMelanie Charles is a Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter, actress, and flutist of Haitian descent, with a creative fluidity spanning jazz, soul, experimental, and Haitian roots music. Charles’ indie release “The Girl with the Green shoes” and “Yali Dont Really Care Black Women” released under the Verve imprint established Charles as a progressive voice in Jazz gaining a handful of features in The New York Times, as well as The Village Voice. “You can hear her collaging her musical DNA into jazz-studded multi-instrumentalism and dipping a toe into the experimental… there’s an uncanny cohesion to Charles’ music.” Village Voice. Charles graduated from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music with a BFA in vocal jazz performance and has worked with Terri Lyne Carrington, SZA, Dana & Alden, Nate Smith, Corrine Bailey Rae, The Gorillaz, Mark De-Clive Lo, Mach Hommy, Kassa Overall and many others. Her television appearances include Good Morning America, SNL, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and HBO’s Vinyl. Charles’ passion project “Make Jazz Trill Again” aims to blur the lines between social classes, cultures, genders, sounds and theories to create a world where opposing elements and eras can co-exist through the vehicle of improvised music, podcast conversation, music and event production and advocacy.2022 Brooklyn Nets Artist Ambassador2024 Artist in Residence @ Skidmore College