The Mighty Sparrow was laid low by … a pinched nerve. This followed a show at Trinidad and Tobago‘s National Academy for the Performing Arts where he sang several songs while sitting in a chair at ...

No singer has had a longer career in calypso and soca than Mighty Sparrow, and people deserve a two-disc Sparrow compilation to bury all other Sparrow compilations. Save this story Save this story ...

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He may be an old bird, but don’t consider this Calypso singer a musical lame duck. More than 50 years after his first song, Slinger Francisco, better known as The Mighty Sparrow, is still flying high.

International Calypso/Soca Week 2011 (July 12 to 19) got off to a tremendous start last week with worldwide birthday celebrations for The Mighty Sparrow, Calypso King of the World. Sparrow turned 76 ...

Calypso, with its peppery lyrics and percolating rhythms synonymous with the Caribbean, long has been dominated by artists whose ferocious stage names reflect the competitive nature of the realm: Lord ...

“Boy, Aaron Duncan? Mighty Sparrow? This is one of, it not the greatest things, I’ve done in music to date.” The incredulous tone in that fervent decla­ration from Aaron Duncan is enough to let the ...

On Wednesday July 9, 2025, the Caribbean’s Calypso King celebrated his 90th birthday. That person is one of, if not our greatest cultural icons, that being, Dr. Slinger Francisco better known to all ...

"On the subject of calypso singers of Trinidad he was both knowledgeable and enthusiastic. The culture they sang about was tough, breezy, unsentimental. Vidia had written…'It is only in the calypso ...