T-VICE A MARSEILLE....J-1....HISTORIQUE DE JEAN CLAUDE VIVENS

T. Vice – Band

In 1990 the sons of the famous guitarist Robert Martino surprised the musical world by coming out with the band T. Vice. The name of the band in itself showed everyone that the boys were determined to follow the footsteps of their legendary father and role model as they chose a name based on their father’s band Top Vice.
With Roberto on lead vocal and guitar, and his younger brother Reynaldo on keyboard, the band T. Vice, with the support of friends and family members, became a reality. The Martino Brothers managed to accomplish what many thought would have been the impossible by taking over the lead of the digital music movement and by getting most of the best gigs of the popular Michel Martelly (Sweet Micky). When Michel realized that T. Vice was moving him to the back burner he quickly went into a series of attacks on the band and their parents. T. Vice didn’t get intimidated and went on a counter-attack in the song Gaçon Makòmè and some responses through their carnival songs.

By the turn of the century T. Vice had managed to take over the lead of the digital movement and Sweet Micky was no longer able to compete with the two brothers. Around that time the full band Djakout Mizik which had for many years launched some attacks on T. Vice, was becoming popular and T. Vice chose to shift the musical polemic to Djakout. However, T. Vice made their mark on the carnival scene in 2002 when they came out with the carnival song Elikoptè. During the whole parade the thousands of fans following the band received from Roberto the order to wave their shirts or any other clothing articles like the blades of a helicopter. In the following four years the band basically controlled the carnival scenes as well as being the band of choice of the Konpa Festivals throughout the world as they continue to improve.
In 2005 the band introduced the drums in their format and in 2006 they added another percussion piece the Gong making the band a seven-member band with James Cardozo, Olivier Duret on vocal and Gerald Kebreau on bass.
The discography of T. Vice includes but is not limited to: Konpa Kontak, Dim Saw Wè, Vinn Pran Note, Kité’m Viv, Banm T. Vice Mwen, 4 Las, Pran Plezi Ou, Kitém Viv and a series of live recordings as well as some compilations of their best hit songs. The band that started as a trio is now an eight member Konpa band.

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