Méringue
Music genre and national symbol in Haiti / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Haitian folk music. For the dessert, see meringue.
Not to be confused with merengue music.
Méringue (French pronunciation: [meʁɛ̃ɡ]; Haitian Creole: mereng), also called méringue lente or méringue de salon (slow or salon méringue),[1][2] is a dance music and national symbol in Haiti.[3] It is a string-based style played on the guitar, horn section, piano, and other string instruments unlike the accordion-based merengue, and is generally sung in Haitian Creole[4] and French, as well as in English and Spanish.[5]
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