T'dòz — Lâcher Prise

Ted’s solo album Lâcher prise, which is due out in June 2014, includes 12 tracks he composed and arranged. His songs are inspired by the many challenges that life has placed in his way and he has transcended. Without measure, he incorporates his roots in traditional Haitian music, Vodou, as well as Pop, Jazz, and Blues. T’dòz has based, among other things, some rhythms of Haitian Vodou, such as Ibo which is associated with move- ments of freedom, Djouba, connected to the peasant world and the virtually untouched Nago rhythm which is used by the Dahome warriors of Benin. The vast musical dimension of the album renders it a work both unique and universal in the themes as love, peace, solidarity and respect for nature, decorated with lightweight pop.

Ted G. Beaubrun aka “T’dòz” (pronounced Ti doze) was born in Ouanaminthe, Haiti and he came from the most prestigious musically and socially committed family on the island. He is the grandson of Theodore Beaubrun, one of the first prominent drummers in Haiti and son Theodore Beaubrun Jr. (nicknamed ‘Lolo’) and mother Mimerose (nicknamed ‘Manze’). In the 1970’s his parents created the group Boukman Eksperyans, known as the original “roots” (racine) music in Haiti.