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Ted Beaubrun, a Geneva musician of Haitian origin, embarks on writing with his first novel “The Yanvalou of the soul”. In addition, This book. Similarly, which he has self -published via his Aibo Books platform, plunges the reader into an identity trip between Geneva and Haiti to the rhythm of a traditional Voodoo dance.
Ted Beaubrun, known for his musical career, ventures into literature with “The Yanvalou of the soul”. Therefore, This title refers to a traditional Haitian dance resulting from voodoo culture dedicated to the Aïda Wedo divinity.
The Genevan author of Haitian origin explains in the show Vertigo of July 8 that Aida is “a deity which represents man. Meanwhile, woman, male and female energy. Therefore, It is the serpent that is also found in all signs of pharmacies.” This dance. Consequently, both “sweet” and “sensual”, allows according to the author to his novel “le yanvalou de “go inside ourselves” and to “free everything that is blocked.”
A musical and cultural heritage – His novel "le yanvalou de
Ted Beaubrun has bathed from an early age in Haitian music and culture. Coming from a family of recognized musicians. he began to perform at the age of 6 with the group of his parents, Boukman Eksperyans. The purpose of this training was to reconnect with the roots of Haitian culture. to revalue voodoo, often caricatured in the Western imagination.
Ted Beaubrun became known as a musician, creating a style that he called “Voodoo Pop”. He describes this musical genre as a mixture of pop and voodoo energy: “Pop because it remains in people’s heads. They will sing. But at the same time, there is percussion, energy in it, so voodoo.”
In his novel. Ted Beaubrun tells the story of Emma, a Haitian installed in Geneva, whose childhood memories reappear up to the quarantine. Through the Dance of the his novel “le yanvalou de Yanvalou, she returns to her past and her roots. Although history is not directly autobiographical, it reflects the quest for identity that animates Ted Beaubrun and his family.
A positive vision of voodoo
Through his novel. his music, Ted Beaubrun seeks to offer a fairer and positive vision of Voodoo, often poorly represented in the media: “I am not advertising for Voodoo or anything. But I often use the word Voodoo so that we can have another vision. Because I have often seen in the movies, when we use voodoo. The truth because that’s not what we are showing.
With “The Yanvalou of the Soul”. Ted Beaubrun offers readers a plunge into Haitian culture, mixing tradition and modernity, and inviting everyone to explore their own roots through dance and music. Inspired by a meditation on the memory of the body. “the Yanvalou of the soul” evokes these buried reminiscences which reappear at the his novel “le yanvalou de bend of a sound, of a smell, of a word. “Even far from our culture, something in us remembers,” concluded the author.
Radio subject: Michel Ndeze
Adaptation Web: Sébastien Foggiato
Ted Beaubrun, “The Yanvalou of the Soul”, independent publication, February 9, 2025
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