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Erol josue biography

          Erol Josue was born into the Vodoo tradition and was initiated at 17 years of age as a Houngan (Vodoo priest).

          Erol Josué was born into the Vodou tradition and initiated at 17 years of age as a Houngan (Vodou priest)....

          Erol Josué interview: “I wanted to participate in the reconstruction of Haiti’s national heritage. I needed to be there”

          Erol Josué knows how to call down and speak to the lwa (spirits) that visit the ceremonies he conducts in Haiti and with Haitians around the world.

          A houngan (vodou priest) since his teens, he speaks langaj, a liturgical vocabulary of words once spoken in Benin and Congo and by Haiti’s Indigenous Taíno.

          Musician, dancer, actor and vodoo priest Artist Profiles: Erol Josué was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in At 19, Erol moved to Paris.

        1. As director of Haiti's National Bureau of Ethnology for over 10 years, author; composer; lyricist; vocalist; choreographer; statesman; vodou priest, or houngan.
        2. Erol Josué was born into the Vodou tradition and initiated at 17 years of age as a Houngan (Vodou priest).
        3. The vodou priest, singer, actor and choreographer Erol Josué is on a mission to dispel the myths and misconceptions about Haiti's musical religion.
        4. Josué, Erol (–), Haitian dancer, choreographer, singer, songwriter, and Vodou priest, was born Jean Erol Josué on 13 October into a middle-class.

          5. The lwa, flattered by langaj, are channelled through trance: Erzulie, the goddess of love and beauty; Chango, the blacksmith with the purifying fire; and the psychopomp Papa Gede, the dancing spirit of life and death, the lwa with the galaxy in his hips.

          “Langaj is the secret language of vodou,” says Josué, a 21st-century renaissance man who is a singer, songwriter, dancer, actor, lecturer and director general of the National Bureau of Ethnology in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital.

          “It cannot be translated except through rituals and dreams. But as pr