![]() Looking back on her life, she tells us that ' Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. Music - and the drums - have given Zarité the strength to survive and thrive through difficult times. ![]() As a child in 1770s Saint-Domingue - ' which would become the richest colony in the world', generating a third of France's wealth from the labor of slaves - Tété is purchased by Toulouse Valmorain's mistress (much admired free cocotte Violette Boisier), to care for his mentally frail wife, Dona Eugenia on his sugar plantation of Saint Lazare. In Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende tells the bitter-sweet story of Zarité (known as Tété), the daughter of an African mother and the white sailor who raped her. ![]()
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