On Tuesday, April 1, a Boston debut for a true original at The Armory. Welcome to the incantatory, voodoo-infused garage blues, by a real Haitian priestess. Somewhere between Oumou Sangaré and Alabama Shakes. 

Moonlight Benjamin is a Haitian-born singer/songwriter/bandleader, who grew up in a protestant orphanage and is now based in France. As a teenager, she started to sing at church.

Her music is unique in the Haitian diaspora. She fuses the gut-level passion of Haitian roots music with the blare and bravado of electric guitar rock, always with a bracing effect. In person, she is elegant, soft-spoken, and articulate. On stage, she is like a person possessed, raw, and emotive -singing mostly in Creole with a burly voice that erupts from somewhere deep within.  Her band rocks hard throughout.

Moonlight’s powerful and rebellious voice meets the tension of saturated guitars to create an intoxicating voodoo trance in a very new and explosive style.

Presented by world class music live.

Tuesday, April 1, door: 7.30 p.m., showtime: 8 p.m. Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave., Somerville, MA 02143.

https://moonlightbenjamin.com/