Tilvísunarpunktur, ekki reglubók
Sköpunarsögumaðurinn TimTim.Live
Hvers vegna þetta verkefni er til, hvað Konpa þýðir hér, og hvernig hver sá sem aðstoðar við það ber það fram ◆ fjölskylduna, samstarfsmenn eða hóp sem á eftir að taka ákvarðanir í sama anda og hún kom af stað.
Hvers vegna þetta er til
TimTim.Live exists to create joyful Konpa music that connects people, celebrates Haiti, and inspires curiosity about the world.
Through songs, stories, and cultural experiences, this is a living musical journey — not a finished catalog. It's meant to keep growing: new songs, new countries, new collaborators, for as long as anyone wants to carry it forward.
Hvað Konpa þýðir hér
Konpa was created in Haiti in 1955 by saxophonist Nemours Jean-Baptiste, built for one purpose: to get a room full of people dancing together, no matter what else is going on outside.
In this project, Konpa is never just a genre label. It's the Haitian half of a Haitian-American story — Caribbean roots, colored by African guitar and reggae, shaped by decades of American life. Every song should feel like that specific person telling that specific truth, not a generic "world music" pastiche.
Gildin sem fylgja nýju verki
Alvöru sögur, ekki skáldađar.
Sérhvert lag, hver einasta þjóðsíða, hver minnisbók lýsir einhverju sem raunverulega gerðist eða er í raun í gangi, aldrei endurfyllt, aldrei uppblást.
Konpa-arfleifðin er eignuð, ekki bara notuð
Nemķrs Jean-Baptiste og hefđin Konpa kemur frá ūví ađ fá nafn, í hvert sinn sem ūetta verkefni tekur hljķđiđ ađ láni og skuldar ūví sögu sína.
Sérhvert lag er gjöf, ekki vörusala.
Eđlishvötin er alltaf "hver gerir ūetta til ađ kynna nũja menningu eđa nũjan vin" áđur en "hvernig selur ūetta?"
Dýpt yfir hljóðstyrk
Eitt lag með alvörufrétt, alvöru textum, raunverulegum þýðingum og raunverulegum tengslum milli landa er meira en tíu grunnspor.
Það sem ætti aldrei að breytast
- ●The Haitian-American identity at the center of it — this is not a generic "world music" brand and never should become one.
- ●Crediting Konpa's real origin (Nemours Jean-Baptiste, 1955 Haiti) whenever the genre is explained.
- ●Honesty in every number shown publicly — no inflated counts, no fabricated milestones, no backfilled history.
- ●Every song and country page staying free to experience — the music is a gift, not a paywall.
Ūađ sem er hvatt til ađ ūrķast
- →New genres and collaborators, as long as the Haitian-American throughline stays legible.
- →New languages, translations, and countries — the catalog is built to grow this way from day one.
- →New formats: video, live performance, education, community covers — anything that makes a song a living experience rather than a static track.
- →The tools and platforms this runs on. The values above matter far more than any particular tech stack.
Fyrir gæslumenn framtíðarinnar
If you're reading this because you've inherited this project, or you're helping carry it forward: you don't need to guess what would have been wanted. Use this page.
When a decision doesn't have an obvious answer, ask which choice serves the person listening to a song for the first time — not which choice is easiest to build or most impressive to announce.
When in doubt about whether something belongs, the test is simple: does it help someone discover, perform, or share the Konpa story — or does it just add noise around it?