Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first two albums were rooted in Haiti, where Benjamin was orphaned at birth and raised by a priest. Their ...

Moonlight Benjamin has a rich contralto voice, at time seductively soft and at others almost violent, as if she were channelling the dark and thunderous anger of the god Ogou Chango, the Haitian ...

For the third consecutive year, NPR teamed up with globalFEST in January 2023 for a thrilling online music festival we call Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: three nights, nine bands, and a world of musical ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is little more than a year since Moonlight Benjamin’s solo debut, Siltane, and the Haiti-born singer has ...

Moonlight Benjamin is a Haitian-born singer/songwriter/bandleader living in France since 2002. Her music is unique on the Haitian diaspora scene. She fuses the gut ...

The year’s varied highlights included Palestinian hip-hop from 47Soul, dramatic bass music from Soweto newcomers BCUC, the Tunisian electronica of Ammar 808 and Vodou protest music from Moonlight ...

Celtic Connections continued its honourable tradition of introducing exciting new talent to an up-for-it audience with Haitian singer Moonlight Benjamin, who has made some fascinating and seamless ...

Moonlight Benjamin of Haiti, shown above at the 2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans, performed at the Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs. About an hour into her ...

Moonlight Benjamin describes her music as a blend of vodou and rock and roll. For the third consecutive year, NPR teamed up with globalFEST in January 2023 for a thrilling online music festival we ...