AZOR National Vodou Funeral, Champs-de-Mars Haiti, Saturday 23 June

A Vodou style National Funeral will be held for Haitian music legend Lenord Fortune aka AZOR at Champs-de-Mars in front of the Haiti National Museum (Musee du Pantheon National) on Saturday July 23rd 2011. Ati Max Beauvoir will lead the funeral...

The body AZOR will arrive at Champ-de-Mars on a horse-drawn carriage

President Michel Martelly made sure that this state funeral be held in honor of the legendary singer and drummer.

The vodou ceremony...

The religious part of the funeral will be a Vodou ceremony, a peristyle will be erected in Champ-de-Mars with stands for the attendees.

The vodou funeral will be led by Ati Max Beauvoir, the highest authority in the Haitian vodou religion.

AZOR, considered the father of Haiti Vodou music, is the first vodouisant (follower of the Haitian vodou religion) to every receive such great honor.

This will a well deserved honor because the man brought vodou music to the world.

AZOR will be cremated...

AZOR's body will be cremated at the Pax Villa Crematorium immediately following the ceremony.

AZOR's funeral will be broadcast nationally.