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Dance music genre

Cadence rampa (Haitian Creole: kadans ranpa, [kadãsɣãpa]), or simply kadans,^[1] is a dance music and modern méringue popularized in the Caribbean by the virtuoso Haitian sax player Webert Sicot in the early 1960s.

Cadence rampa was one of the sources of cadence-lypso.^[2][3] Cadence and compas are two names for the same Haitian modern méringue.

Ethnology

Cadence rampa literally means rampart rhythm.^[4]

History

Webert Sicot left Nemours Jean-Baptiste's compas band and called his music cadence to differentiate it from compas especially when he took it abroad, and so the rivalry between Sicot and Nemours created these names.

Sicot created a new rhythm, cadence rampa, to counter compas, but it was only in a spirit of competition. The rhythm of cadence rampa was identical to compas except for the addition of the second drum that sounded on every fourth beat.^[5]

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