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His catalog of official recordings spans seven decades. By Kyle Denis The Caribbean gained another ancestor over the weekend. On Sunday (Sept. 27), the family of Slinger Francisco, known to the world ...

The man who became the voice of Trinidad and Tobago’s calypso scene wasn’t actually born there. Slinger Francisco, better known as the Mighty Sparrow, came into the world in Grand Roy, Grenada, in ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Calypso music lost one of its most emblematic voices Sunday with the death of Slinger Francisco, who was known on stage as the Mighty Sparrow and dubbed the “Calypso King of ...

The Mighty Sparrow has died at the age of 91. The legendary calypsonian died peacefully in New York on Sunday following a brief illness, surrounded by loved ones. "It is with great sadness that we ...

Slinger Francisco, the Grenada-born, Trinidad-raised performer known around the world as the Mighty Sparrow and for generations across the Caribbean as the “Calypso King of the World,” died Sunday in ...

He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew. By Margalit Fox The Mighty Sparrow, known for more ...

Legendary calypsonian Slinger Francisco, better known as the Mighty Sparrow, has died at the age of 91. His family said the Grenada-born, Trinidad-raised performer died peacefully in New York on ...

Last year, I printed Psalm 84 and placed it above our coffee and tea nook at home. It may seem like an unusual place for Scripture, but I knew I needed the reminder. Capt. Rosanna Tollerud is with the ...

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