Mighty Sparrow, the undisputed king of calypso music who singlehandedly elevated one of the most intensely flavored genres of the Caribbean into an unprecedented level of artistry and global ...

He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew. By Margalit Fox See more of our coverage in your ...

Born in Grenada and migrated to Trinidad and Tobago as a toddler, Slinger Francisco built a six-decade calypso career after his 1956 breakthrough, “Jean and Dinah.” Slinger Francisco, the calypso ...

Calypso and soca music’s loveable rogue, The Mighty Sparrow, died this week, aged 91, surrounded by family in New York. His death came after a “brief illness”, the statement said without disclosing ...

Slinger Francisco, better known as Mighty Sparrow, the “Calypso King of the World”, flew away on 27 September. He was ninety. Calypso music was invented in the seventeenth century by African slaves in ...