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.

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 ...

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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The Mighty Sparrow — the now-legendary calypsonian who burst on the Caribbean music scene in 1956 and soared into music history — is the subject of the free “Just Like That, Sparrow Turned 80” ...

The names Aldwyn Roberts and Slinger Francisco might not ring a bell in jazz circles, but trumpeter Etienne Charles' Kaiso helps to rectify that issue. Charles pays tribute to these two giants of ...

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 ...

Our Latin Roots segment today is with Ernesto Lechner of the syndicated radio show The Latin Alternative. He joins us to talk about The Mighty Sparrow, a musical giant who has been a defining force in ...

"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 ...