Méringue

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Music of Haïti
Carnival	Cadence rampa
Kompa	Kadans
Méringue	Mizik rasin
Rara	Zouk
Timeline and Samples
Francophone Caribbean
Martinique and Guadeloupe - Haïti - Louisiana
Other islands
Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Aruba and the Dutch Antilles - Bahamas - Barbados - Bermuda - Cayman Islands - Cuba - Grenada - Jamaica - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Montserrat - Puerto Rico - St Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - St Vincent and the Grenadines - Trinidad and Tobago - Turks and Caicos - Virgin Islands

Méringue, also spelled "mereng" in Creole, is a music genre native to Haiti (West Hispaniola). It is related to twoubadou and is musically and historically connected to Dominican merengue. It is a guitar-based style (unlike the primarily accordion-based merengue), and is generally sung in Haitian Creole.