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 ...

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 ...

International Calypso/Soca Week 2011 (July 12 to 19) got off to a tremendous start last week with worldwide birthday celebrations for The Mighty Sparrow, Calypso King of the World. Sparrow turned 76 ...

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.

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 ...

(Trinidad Express) The Birdie is back! Make no mistake about it, Slinger Francisco, better known as The Mighty Sparrow, Calypso King of the World, has returned to the stage, if only for a few moments ...

The Mighty Sparrow's resurrection from a coma seems to have awakened many a dead, although the miracle I hoped for most, breathing new life into calypso, appears to be beyond the Birdie's prowess.

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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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 ...