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 ...

The nom de plume The Mighty Sparrow has proven apt for Slinger Francisco. The singer’s birthplace — Grand Roy, Grenada, a country village better known for crops than calypso — is as unassuming as his ...

He inspired Bob Marley’s political awakening, survived a coma, and has sung about everything from sex workers to Khrushchev. And at 83, the calypso great still wants to turn the news into song ‘ Can ...

(Trinidad Guardian) Dr Slinger Francisco known around the world as the Mighty Sparrow—who was baptised Saturday in Brooklyn, New York —will now be using his gift of singing for the Seventh Day ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) – Mighty Sparrow, the undisputed Calypso King of the World, was baptized on Saturday at Far Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York. According to the Searchlight newspaper in ...

It’s been almost a year since members of the Caribbean community in Toronto were saddened by the erroneous news that the Mighty Sparrow, widely regarded as the greatest Calypsonian of all time, had ...

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.

Sub-titled "wit, wisdom and soul from the King of Calypso 1962-74", this two-album set provides a reminder of the varied skills of the singer-songwriter who dominated Caribbean music in the pre-reggae ...

Album Review: Mighty Sparrow’s Sparromania! â Wit, Wisdom And Soul From The King Of Calypso 1962-1974 is one of the best exponents of Trinidadian pop. Saucy, topical calypsos make up the bulk of this ...

There’s a wonderful clip on YouTube of Mighty Sparrow performing his classic ditty about interracial cunnilingus, “Congo Man”, and then admitting that—contrary to any claims made in the song—he has ...

Before Harry Belafonte brought calypso to North America, there was the Mighty Sparrow. The 76-year-old Trinidadian-raised legend (dubbed the "calypso king of the world") once again gets the anthology ...