{"id":4201,"date":"2026-05-23T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:35:08","slug":"ayiti-dan-halfdan-and-bic-celebrate-the-grenadiers-through-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/ayiti-dan-halfdan-and-bic-celebrate-the-grenadiers-through-music\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAyiti\u2026 Dan!\u201d: Halfdan and BIC celebrate the Grenadiers through music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Football World Cup is not just a matter of round ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Football World Cup is not just a matter of soccer. As the FIFA 2026 World Cup approaches, the qualification of the Grenadiers also inspires Haitian artists. Young singer Halfdan and BIC Tizon Dife thus present &#8220;Ayiti\u2026 Dan!&#8221;, a musical composition driven by the euphoria of Haiti&#8217;s return to the grand stage of world football, 52 years after its first participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It was the scenes of celebration following Haiti&#8217;s qualification for the 2026 World Cup that inspired Halfdan to create this piece, which seeks to express the collective joy of a people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Musically, &#8220;Ayiti\u2026 Dan!&#8221; is a bundle of energy blending various influences: rara tech, afro, and rap, with a strong presence of percussion. BIC explained that the artists chose to focus on &#8220;local originality&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Football World Cup is not just a matter of round ball. The Football World Cup is not just a matter of soccer. As the FIFA 2026 World Cup approaches,&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow67bgCw:productID":"","_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4203,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}