Singer “Freedom” Laroche holds onto optimism, hope for Haiti

FORT LAUDERDALE — Christopher “Freedom” Laroche remembers hallucinating that his soul left his body. It was in the early 2000s, and Laroche was laying in a Toronto hospital, going in and out of a coma. He begged God to help him, promising to do something special for Haiti if he lived.

“The only thing I remember was I was Haitian,” Laroche, 38, said about his time at the hospital. “I did not remember my name. I did not remember nothing. At that point, I felt like my love for Haiti became magic.”