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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: May 01, 2015
• Views : 709
• Category : Haiti News
• Description : By Steve Gow
  Updated : April 28, 2015 | 8:02 pm
  
  Photo: In Sweet Micky for President, producer Pras Michel becomes Michel Martelly's (Micky) right-hand man.
• Website : http://metronews.ca/scene/1353769/pop-goes-the-presidency-fugees-pras-michel-talks-haiti-doc-sweet-micky-for-president/

Overview

• In the wake of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, former Fugees rapper Pras Michel witnessed his homeland embroiled in unrest from lack of leadership. With a looming election, the hip-hop star virtually decided who would rescue the country from chaos — an outrageous pop-star named Sweet Micky.

  “Literally, it just came to me,” said Michel of his epiphany to turn a shocking singer (better known for such burlesque antics as dropping his pants on-stage) into Haiti’s next president.

  “What the country needed at that particular point was something that was unorthodox to get the mood (and) energy back and distract from the pain and he just happened to be thrown to me in my universe.”
  
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