Michel Martelly construction and briefly attended a community college in Miami. In 1986, after one semester, he returned to Haiti just as Jean-Claude Duvalier, then president-for-life, was heading into exile. In 1987, Martelly returned to Miami with his then-girlfriend, Sophia Saint-Rémy, whom he later married in a small ceremony in Miami, Florida. They returned to Haiti in 1988. Upon his return to Haiti, Martelly had his first breakthrough in the music industry when he began playing keyboard as a fill-in musician in local venues in Pétion-Ville and Kenscoff, upscale suburbs of Port-au-Prince. Martelly "sang playful, romantic numbers over a slow méringue beat
Michel Randria was dismissed by a decree of the PSD-dominated Council of Ministers a few months later. He acted as adviser to his eldest son, Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, who became President of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar. Michel Randria died on 1 December 1977 in Fianarantsoa at the age of 74. Michel Randria Michel Randria (1 June 1903 – 1 December 1977) was a Malagasy teacher and politician who was a senator for French Madagascar from 1948 to 1952. Michel Randria was born on 1 June 1903 in Fianarantsoa, in Betsileo country in the south of the central