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- ↑ Mark Kurlansky A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny -- 1992 Page 109 "Mario Chicot became a popular zouk singer even though he candidly admitted that he could not sing zouk, was not comfortable with its lively style. Instead he sang Haitian compas, as he always had. Haitians in the 1980s took to claiming that ...
- ↑ Mario Chicot revient avec Besoin de toi. 2011
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