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Artist: MACHADO
From: Queens, New York
Sound: Conscious Afro-Caribbean rap · soca · rara · afrobeats
Language: English and Haitian Kreyòl
Label: Aethereus Records
Debut album: Caribbean Outlaw · 13 tracks · due 2027 · one single a month
Out now: Ayiti Mwen (Sep 25, 2026)
Next: City-Soul Sound (’73 to Infinity) · Nov 11, 2026
Contact: music@aethereusrecords.com

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Ayiti Mwen

A love letter to Haiti: red soil, mountain roads, city by city and plate by plate. English with Haitian Kreyòl, over soca and rara drums with an afrobeats pulse. Written to be sung back.

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ISRC: QT6J32632939
Length: 4:08
Released: September 25, 2026 · Aethereus Records
Explicit: No

The sound, in three sentences

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Conscious Afro-Caribbean rap carries the story over soca and rara drums, with afrobeats in the big rooms and deep 808 sub-bass underneath. English and Haitian Kreyòl share the verses, with Kreyòl coming in where the story calls for it. It is outlaw-first music: first-person, specific about place, and more interested in the road than in the verdict.

Bio

Short (117 characters)

Outlaw griot out of Queens, New York. Haitian and Cuban roots, Caribbean rhythm, stories from wherever the road went.

Medium

MACHADO is an outlaw griot out of Queens, New York, with Haitian roots and Cuban blood. His music is conscious Afro-Caribbean rap over soca and rara drums, with afrobeats in the big rooms and deep 808 sub-bass underneath. The debut album, Caribbean Outlaw, is out one single a month. First up: Ayiti Mwen, a love letter to Haiti.

Long

MACHADO is an outlaw griot out of Queens, New York. Haitian roots and Cuban blood. An island griot, past and present.

Kompa bounce underneath, soca and rara drums on top, afrobeats in the big rooms. Afro-Caribbean rap carries the story, and Haitian Kreyòl surfaces where the story calls for it.

Caribbean Outlaw is not a map of one island. It is an itinerary: the islands, the mainland, the mountains, the city streets, a harbor at night. An outlaw travels. A griot remembers.

The album in one look

Caribbean Outlaw has three acts: The outlaw arrives (01–04), The road (05–10) and The griot answers (11–13), closing on Island Griot (Album Outro). Each track has a line on the route. Only Ayiti Mwen is out so far; City-Soul Sound follows on November 11.

How this music is made

The words, the story and the voice are MACHADO’s. The voice is enhanced with AI tools, and the music is made with AI tools. The cover art, stills and video are made with AI tools too, and put together by hand.

Every release is declared as AI-made when it is delivered to streaming services, and any service that shows AI credits will show them.