Tafa Mi-Soleil
rasin, neo-soul, afrobeat
Tafa Mi-Soleil, born Evenie Rose Thafaïna Saint-Louis, is one of the most important woman voices in the new Haitian rasin movement. Born in Fort-Jacques in 1998, she grew up in a world where church, creation, fashion, painting, and music all had space. Before many listeners knew her as a singer, she was already a visual artist, stylist, and creator who understood image as part of performance.
The public discovered her more widely through her collaboration with D-Fi Powèt Revòlte on 'Mizik Sove Vi m', after which she took her solo path with projects such as 'Reponn' and 'Phoenix'. Tafa does not use rasin as decoration. She takes drums, lakou, Vodou as cultural inheritance, women, body, healing, and personal pain and places them in a sound blending rasin, neo-soul, afrobeat, and modern production.
'Mizik Sove Vi m', 'Rasin Mwen', 'Mwen Vle w', 'Dife', 'Nan Lakou a', 'Medley Rasin Live', 'Chita Tann Ou', and 'Lakou' show an artist speaking to the digital generation without cutting the thread to ancestral memory. She cites or carries influences such as Toto Bissainthe, Manno Charlemagne, Carole Demesmin, Emeline Michel, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, and Lauryn Hill, but her voice remains her own.
Tafa Mi-Soleil matters because she shows rasin is not museum music. It can sing healing, womanhood, lakou, plants, rites, and modern life with equal force. In the collection, she represents a generation of women taking rasin, placing it in their own bodies, and making it a language for the 2020s.
The official Phoenix videos of 2023 give that chapter a clearly documented form: 'Zili', 'Etranje', 'Janmen Lwen W', 'Mercy', and 'Sole' present Tafa as the series' lyricist and melody writer. The credits place her alongside producers JnJ Beatz, T-Harold, Elder Charlot, and Fabrice Rouzier, while Cisco, Dener Céide, Dion Kerr, Kéké Bélizaire, and several backing vocalists supply its musical colors.