Cadence rampa (Haitian Creole: kadans ranpa, [kadãs ɣãpa]), or simply kadans,[1] is a dance music and modern méringue popularized in the Caribbean by the virtuoso Haitian sax player Webert Sicot in the early 1960s.
The rhythm of cadence rampa was identical to compas except for the addition of the second drum that sounded on every fourth beat.
[5] In the 1930s several biguine artists from Martinique and Guadeloupe moved to France, where they achieved great popularity in Paris, especially in the wake of the colonial exhibition in 1931.
In the later part of the 20th century, biguine musicians like clarinet virtuoso Michel Godzom helped revolutionize the genre.
They introduced the méringue-cadence to the Caribbean, specifically the French Antilles of Martinique and Guadeloupe around 1962, from where it spread to Dominica.