Issa Joseph El-Saieh, also known as Maestro, was a Haitian saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer, arranger, businessman, gallerist and art collector of Palestinian descent. Throughout his life and work he contributed to two facets of Haitian culture: music as well as art. From 1941 to the mid 1950s, as a musician, composer, arranger and bandleader of the Orchestre Saieh. In parallel to his music career, he began buying and collecting Haitian art. By the late 1950s, he founded the Galerie Issa, through which he promoted Haitian art and culture abroad. He died in Port-au-Prince from esophageal cancer on February 2, 2005, at the age of 85. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issa_El...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
