Mimerose P. "Manzè" Beaubrun (born November 13, 1956) is a Haitian musician and writer.
Born Mimerose Pierre [1] in Ouanaminthe, she received a diploma in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Université d'État d'Haiti. [2] Beaubrun is one of the lead singers and a founding member of the rasin band Boukman Eksperyans. She is married to another founding member, Theodore Beaubrun, a member of a notable family of Haitian entertainers. [3] [4] The couple have two children: Laura and Paul. [5]
She promotes Haitian culture, [6] including Haitian Vodou, and has extensively researched the system of communal living known as lakou. [7] Beaubrun is a mambo, or Vodou priestess.
She is the author of Nan Dòmi, récit d'une initiation vodou (2011), translated into English as Nan Dòmi: An Initiate’s Journey into Haitian Vodou (2013). [8] She is also co-author of the 1998 book Livre ouvert sur le développement endogène d’Haïti, translated into English as Open Book on the Endogenous Development of Haiti. [9]
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Mimerose P. "Manzè" Beaubrun (born November 13, 1956) is a Haitian musician and writer.
Born Mimerose Pierre [1] in Ouanaminthe, she received a diploma in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Université d'État d'Haiti. [2] Beaubrun is one of the lead singers and a founding member of the rasin band Boukman Eksperyans. She is married to another founding member, Theodore Beaubrun, a member of a notable family of Haitian entertainers. [3] [4] The couple have two children: Laura and Paul. [5]
She promotes Haitian culture, [6] including Haitian Vodou, and has extensively researched the system of communal living known as lakou. [7] Beaubrun is a mambo, or Vodou priestess.
She is the author of Nan Dòmi, récit d'une initiation vodou (2011), translated into English as Nan Dòmi: An Initiate’s Journey into Haitian Vodou (2013). [8] She is also co-author of the 1998 book Livre ouvert sur le développement endogène d’Haïti, translated into English as Open Book on the Endogenous Development of Haiti. [9]
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