FORTY YEARS AFTER FIRST making a splash, he’s still “hopping around on stage like a damned sparrow. The Mighty Sparrow, whose name derives from his energetic stage style, never envisioned singing ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s another birth anniversary for Slinger – “The Mighty Sparrow” – Francisco today. The Mighty Sparrow Does anyone call him “Slinger” or “Francisco”? except his bankers, doctors, or attorneys? And ...

The Mighty Sparrow is nearly 80 and was seriously ill not so long ago, but you would hardly know it. The Calypso King is in Guyana for a concert at the Palm Court tonight and though from his ...

In 1956, the calypsonian who would go on to proclaim himself calypso king of the world, the Mighty Sparrow, won almost instant acclaim singing about Trinidadian women of easy virtue. His Yankees Gone, ...

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 ...