Voodoo played a big role of the importance of Haiti. And everybody who's trying to convert Haiti into Christianity and to many other things, they know the importance of it. Because I can just tell you one secret, you cannot play any drums around any Haitians, for them to not be like, even though they don't want to say nothing, even after that they'll be like, what you doing here? Before they even ask you the question, they'll be like, they'll give you a little shimmy because that's a deep, deep umbilical connections Haitians have to its voodoo roots. Because voodoo, it's all about music and singing and community. That's what voodoo is about. And when I explain that to people, sometimes they're like, I thought they do bad things in voodoo. So, the day that we're able to really separate voodoo and make everybody in the world see Haiti as, yes, as a voodoo country, but as something that's very important.
Because in voodoo you find leaves that can treat you with cancer, with whatever disease that you're dealing with. In voodoo you find peace. In voodoo you find your meditation, your healing.
And I still want to pay for it even, because it deserves to be monetized and being able to really develop in a bigger way. So why not? There's all this opportunity for us to continue to make our culture and tradition more richer. But sometimes we end up finding a group of people who try to limit you because they want to continue to keep you into cages to make you think like you're not human.
So to me, that's what I want to talk about when it comes to voodoo and when it comes to tradition. Because a country with no tradition and culture is not a country. And that's not every country have their own tradition.
You'll find people in America who are like, yeah, you know, my background is Irish and when it's Irish Day, we eat cabbage, we do this. Some other folks who are Italian, we eat pasta. Why Haiti cannot say voodoo? So for me, I'm like, and I don't think I ever even question them when somebody tell me about their culture.
It's something that I'm curious to be like, I would like to taste the food or whatever you do, I would like to see it. I would like to be part of it. So to me, that's the same thing Haitians want to do with their culture and tradition.