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In 1986, he produced the
"Celebration" album of Khal-Mah Vibrations, a Miami Band that he
was the bandleader, lead guitarist, and arranger. He was very
please to play that project alongside Haitian Superstars in the likes of Dadou
Pasquet, Anderson Cameau, Mario Malaya, Lucky Pierre,
Pedro Souffrant and many other great Talents.
In 1990, he produced
"Kompa'm Se
Pam" in collaboration with Obed Lubin, Nasser Chery, and Yvon
Mondesir. He wrote seven songs and lyrics for six of them.
During the same year, he worked with Ana Pierre in her album "PaVin Rete Kem"
and he also assisted on the production and arrangement of "En Pa'n Kares".
While
working on his upcomimg "Sekool CD" in
1994, he managed to write two songs for his friend Ana: "Pa Fe'm Sa
Konsa, a pop kompa and "J'ai Besoin De Toi", a Reggae Caribbean
style. That Album was released in 1995 under AP"s production label.
He
started the Sekool project in 1993. This
was somewhat different from the conventional Kompa structure. He
called this production a Fusion-Kompa (where different flavors have been
introduced). The concept was rather concert oriented instead of the
traditional dance approach. Hervé's entourage was full with great
talent such as Jephte Bastien, a Pop singer from Montreal; extraordinary Tabou Combo
bass player, Yves A Abel; Denis "Ti Polis" Nozil; Jean
Claude "Coq" Jean of Tabou Combo;
Landrin Battistini, studio Keyboardist and Lucky
Pierre, just to name a few. The album was lunch in early 1997
along with a Video Hit "Menvi Konnen'w".
In 1995 he
started a project for Assad
Francoeur, Coupé Cloué ex lead singer. Ten originals arranged and
produced by Fanini's unique touch with all respect to the original
"Mamba Groove" and yet completely different from what you would
expect. He finally came to end in July 2003 awaiting the release soon. By
the way the project was reborn in December 2002 after Lucky Pierre heard
one piece and was convinced that project was bound to be a Hit Factory. So
the album title is "HIT sous HIT".
Early 1998, Fanini was
working on a new project that would be the Sekool next generation (perhaps
a solo album - can you imaging Fanini Singing?) You have yet to listen to
this one: Konpa all the way: very, very different. Although most of the
recording had been completed, Fanini is entertaining the idea of singing
or producing a young talent. Look out for that one.
Summer 1998, "South Beach In
Motion" a compilation South Beach' bests artists at that time,
selected "Love Saex" as one as the
twelve songs that made up this project.
December 2002, while
taking a ride with his friend Lucky Pierre, Fanini was playing a tape in his car
that caught Lucky's attention. Oh yeah! That was Assad Francoeur. That day
in December revived the project that has been dormant for nearly seven
years. Prince
Assali "HIT sous HIT CD has been completed awaiting its release.
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