Former Haiti President Michel Martelly, aka “Sweet Micky,” performs at Cafe Iguana Pines in Pembroke Pines on May 19, 2016. Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com Miami police will not allow ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Michel Martelly, a Haitian popular singer known by the stage name "Sweet Micky," was officially declared the earthquake-devastated country's next president, election ...

Martelly, a former pop star who used the stage name “Sweet Micky,” came to office with no previous political experience. He was elected in March on populist promises to turn Haiti into a Caribbean ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The second-place finisher in Haiti's presidential runoff will not challenge the preliminary results, a spokesman said Friday, putting musician Michel "Sweet Micky ...

In the lively and graphic opening montage of the new documentary “Sweet Micky for President,” a behind-the-scenes look at Haiti’s 2010-2011 Presidential election and the rise of the ...

As he did on the campaign trail, Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly avoided any specifics about how he would lead, but distanced himself from his outrageous stage persona as he spoke of reconciliation ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE/MIAMI (Reuters) - As the carnival music star "Sweet Micky", Haiti's shaven-headed Michel Martelly captivated audiences with an engaging style, provocative on-stage antics and ...

His fans might be surprised to know that in 2010 the Brooklyn-born recording artist transformed his friend, an outlandish pop singer widely known in Haiti as Sweet Micky, into a candidate for ...

Haiti’s latest crisis came to a head on February ... Before his own turn in politics, Martelly was best known as Sweet Micky, a ribald performer of a lively brand of dance music known as compas.

Even so, Martelly’s authoritarian style is widely blamed for worsening Haiti’s democratic dysfunction ... For the moment, his main aim is to be Sweet Micky again.

Haiti's president-elect, Michel Martelly, known to his countrymen as "Sweet Micky," is -- let's be delicate about this -- a new kind of political figure. Wildly popular during his two-decade ...

Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly strolled into office with two-thirds of the votes, promising radical change. Since retiring from the stage in 2007, Martelly has tried to shed his self-proclaimed ...