ASSOCIATION

TiCorn is an established performing artist of the Caribbean island Haiti. Her colorful career as professional singer / songwriter started 1978 with her first recording LP “Haiti”. Many music productions, concerts, live performances and music videos followed over the years. Besides interpreting traditional Haitian folk songs and her own ballads in Creole and English, she had the pleasure to work with renowned musicians and songwriters. Melodious tunes, beautiful lyrics, intricate rhythms, skillful guitar accompaniment and a warm, natural vocal “timbre” are gracefully combined to charm wherever she performs.

 

As a faithful and loving representative of Haitian music TiCorn expresses in tunes of joy, laughter and sorrow the deeply poetic soul of a nation which never abandons hope. TiCorn (Creole for “petite Cornelia” - Cornelia Schütt) was born 1953 to a German family, rooted in Haiti for several generations in the trading and shipping business.

 

At the age of 12 she started playing the guitar and singing the songs that surrounded her. She spent her childhood in Cap Haitian, then was sent to Germany for further education. She has lived most of her life between the Caribbean and Europe and continue to travel to many countries

 

She made her first public appearance in 1960 at the Feu Vert Nightclub, at a dance hosted by the Orchestre Septentrional. Ever since, Ti Corn has continued to take roots in Haitian folklore, singing, like her models Martha Jean Claude and Toto Bissainthe traditional songs, largely in Creole. She is fluent in German, French, English, and speaks Spanish.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She recorded Hati Cherie (1979), Cvolan (1982), La map rete (1987), Creole favorites (1988), Ballades Carabes and Caribbean Ballads (1991), as well as Cap Hatien, her latest, in 2009. Carnage, Promenade Amoureuse Sur le Rivage du Cap, Sous le Ciel Haiti (the latter covered by the rap band Barikad Crew) are but a few hits from her repertoire. On June 20 and 21, 2009, Ti Corn performed at the North Miami Beach Performing Arts Theater, and there signed copies of her latest album, Cap Hatien, released simultaneously as a CD box featuring all her old hits.Haitian Creole music according to Ti Corn: Ti Corn says singing in Creole, a very colorful language, gives her free range in terms of creation and expression. The softness, musicality and natural poetic strength of the language, more than any language, lend themselves to her artistic voice.

 

 

Websites:

http://www.ticorn.com/

 

http://www.ab40.de/_go40/pages/3__10_1.html

 

https://plus.google.com/photos/102775414166512448354/albums/5351041556001237985?banner=pwa

 

 

 

 

For information, please contact:

Telephone: 202-681-0222
Email: info@lakouassociation.org

Mail: Lakou Association Leadership Gala Awards
2007 Osborn Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20910