A marathon week is in the making for Bélo. The Haitian singer-composer and winner of the RFI “Découvertes” Award landed in Paris in the early hours on Monday 5 February. RFI Music was hot on his tracks, from Roissy Charles-de Gaulle airport to his exhilarating first concert in the capital’s Réservoir club.

It is Monday 5 February, and at Roissy airport in Paris, the flight from Philadelphia has just landed. As the heavily laden passengers drip slowly into arrivals, Bélo suddenly appears, smiling and tired. Having played his first U.S. concert in Miami over the weekend, he is due to perform for the first time in Paris today. Read on