Olivier Martelly Olivier Martelly Michel-Olivier Martelly (), better known as Olivier Martelly, is a Haitian American singer. He has a stage name, BigO. Olivier Martelly was born in Haiti. His father, Michel Martelly was the 56th President of Haiti, and his mother, Sophia Saint-Rémy Martelly was First Lady. Olivier's discographies are hard to find, and as public data about him are extremely limited, his career is relatively unknown. In the 2015 presidential election, he published a song endorsing government-backed candidate Jovenel Moise in response to Wyclef Jean's endorsement of Jude Célestin. Martelly is the CEO of Big O Productions, that features Haitian
Michel Martelly called compas, the only music allowed under the Duvaliers." After the 1991 Haitian coup d'état saw the expulsion of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, "Martelly opened a Pétion-Ville club called the Garage, where he entertained many of the coup's main architects, including the much-feared chief of national police, Michel François, later convicted in absentia for massacring Aristide supporters." Martelly has been heralded as a pioneer of a unique genre of compas, a style of Haitian dance music sung predominantly in the Haitian Creole language. Originally, compas, was the creation of Nemours Jean-Baptiste. Martelly, a keyboardist and the self-proclaimed "President of Compas," popularized a