a saint associated with Baron Samedi. No altar would be complete without the requisite top hat and cane. Oakland dance instructor Portsha Jefferson, whose great-grandmother was Haitian ...

One of his recurring characters was Baron Samedi, a lusty underworld spirit from Haitian voodoo traditions. Holder based his dance work Banda on the character, usually depicted in a top hat ...

Holder played iconic top-hatted voodoo villain Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die - the first of the James Bond movies to star Roger Moore. Geoffrey Richard Holder was born in Port of Spain ...