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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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In legacy terms, no price can be put on the value of the work of the Mighty Sparrow, living legend extraordinaire in the world of calypso. Sparrow is a pioneer in an art form that is yet to realise ...

For over four decades, the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) has been yodeling, bragging, chirping and cleverly rhyming his way into the souls and bodies of calypso music fans worldwide. Yet he had ...

For over four decades, the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) has been yodeling, bragging, chirping and cleverly rhyming his way into the souls and bodies of calypso music fans worldwide. Yet he had ...