Val Jeanty
Val Jeanty (Val-Inc) | |
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Jeanty at Areté in Brooklyn, 2018 | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | Val-Inc. |
| Origin | Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| Genres | Afro-Electronica, electro-vodou, electronica, avant-garde |
| Occupation(s) | turntablist, percussionist, professor, music producer |
| Years active | 1998 - present |
| Labels | Innova |
| Website | https://soundcloud.com/vjeanty |
Val Jeanty, also known as Val-Inc, is a Haitian electronic music composer, turntablist, and professor at Berklee College of Music who evokes the musical esoteric realms of the creative subconscious self-defined as “Afro-Electronica.” She incorporates her African Haitian musical traditions into the present and beyond, combining acoustics with electronics and the archaic with the post-modern. Jeanty is a pioneer of the electronic music subgenre Afro- Electronica also called "Vodou-Electro".