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.

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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 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 ...

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 ...

Mighty Sparrow (whose real name is Slinger Francisco) was also one of the few old-school calypso singers to adapt to the funkier soca (soul calypso) style of a younger generation. The intricate rhymes ...

The calypso is a song style that disguises a wicked sense of humour and wit with a relatively perky exterior. The music is bouncy and sweet, but the lyrics belie the happy exterior by dealing with ...