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Mar 01, 1948 Port au Prince, Ouest, Haiti Died on 28 Feb 2012 (aged 63)
was a Haitian drummer and .Vodou practitioner
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About Frisner Augustin
- Frisner Augustin (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [f?isn? ogist?~]; March 1, 1948 – February 28, 2012) was a major performer and composer of Haitian Vodou drumming, and the first and only citizen of Haiti to win a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States, where he resided for forty years. A youth prodigy on the traditional drums of Haitian Vodou in ritual context, Augustin took his genre to the modern stage, often exploring its common roots with various jazz styles.
- From his initial forays in Haiti with Lina Mathon Blanchet, Jacky Duroseau, and Jazz des Jeunes, he went on to work in the United States and Europe with Kip Hanrahan, Edy Brisseaux, and Andrew Cyrille.
- He also recorded for the late filmmaker Jonathan Demme. Augustin led his own ensemble, La Troupe Makandal, from 1981 until his death.
- He used the group not only to make music but also to change popular misconceptions in the public mind regarding Haitian Vodou, a poorly understood but richly developed Afro-Haitian spiritual discipline.
