Although the band is from New York, most of the band members are Haitian or Haitian-American, and the musical style of the band adopted was inspired by the mizik rasin movement then being suppressed in Haïti by the military junta of Raoul Cédras.
He served as the provisional president of Haïti between 1991 and 1992, part of a period in which real political authority rested with the military junta headed by Raoul Cédras and Michel François.
He lived abroad in exile twice, both during the 1980s and again during the years 1991-1994, when the country was ruled by a military junta led by Raoul Cédras.
As required by Article 149, of the 1987 Haitian Constitution, Haiti's Parliament appointed Supreme Court Justice Joseph Nérette as provisional President, to fill in until elections could be held.
Morse and his band are famous in Haiti for their political songs and performances critical of the Raoul Cédras military junta from 1991 to 1994.
Raoul Wallenberg | Raoul Dufy | Raoul Cédras | Raoul Walsh | Raoul Josset | Raoul Duke | Tony Cedras | Raoul Peck | Raoul Hausmann | Raoul Hafner | Raoul | Raoul Ubac | Raoul "Rod" Dedeaux | Raoul Island | Raoul Grimoin-Sanson | Raoul Berger | Raoul Auernheimer | Super Raoul | Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School | Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law | Raoul Wallenberg Holocaust Memorial Park | Raoul Van Caenegem | Raoul Schrott | Raoul Ploquin | Raoul Lefèvre | Raoul Kraushaar | Raoul (James Bond) | Raoul I of Lusignan | Raoul G. Cantero, III | Raoul Castex |
They did not want to return to Haiti following the events of 1991 Haitian coup d'état where Army General Raoul Cédras had led a military coup.