A Want To Be
by Carimi · 2007 · kompa · 4:52 · Haitian Creole, French
“A Want To Be” is an English-titled track from Carimi’s first major era, with a video copy uploaded in 2007. Across nearly five minutes, voices, keyboards, and the New York band’s tight kompa give desire a dance form. The phrase sounds incomplete alone, as though it needs an identity or future to finish it, and that openness makes the hook work. Carimi built a bridge between Haitian experience, R&B, hip-hop, and the early digital era. English speaks to diaspora without leaving kompa cadence behind.