Royalty suffers its nicknames – remember Randy Andy? – and nobody knows that better than the Mighty Sparrow, known as the Calypso King. “The peers of my time stood straight and flat-footed without ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those fortunate to have grown up during the heyday of the Mighty Sparrow could not be happier to get a close-up of his early life through the spotlight of the theatre presentation Ten To One: Tribute ...

Calypso King of the World, The Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco), will celebrate his 90th birthday on July 9. In celebration of this milestone, the Express is paying tribute to this calypso legend ...

Calypso legend Mighty Sparrow — who mixes Frank Sinatra’s suaveness, R. Kelly’s obsession with sex, Bob Dylan’s social commentary, and 50 Cent’s trash-talking into one Trinidadian whirlwind — is no ...

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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 ...

The Mighty Sparrow was laid low by … a pinched nerve. Rumors that the 75-year-old “Calypso King of the World” – and Jamaica, Queens, resident – was gravely ill flooded Caribbean radio and Internet ...

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 ...