debut: 2/16/17
36,394 runs
Happy birthday, Birdie, true king of calypso
“His name is De Mighty Sparrow, de fella could sing calypso...” We recall that tribute paid to Slinger Francisco, Calypso King of the World, by his colleague and friend Carlton Joseph, Lord Blakie.
On Tuesday, July 9, Sparrow celebrated 89 years on the planet. God has been good to him for long life. In return for that gift of life, Sparrow has given his life to his God, baptised in the faith of the Seventh Day Adventists in New York, where he now spends most of this time.
Sparrow, without hesitation the king of calypso, has been decorated with the Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree by The University of the West Indies, a Lifetime Award by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, and was made a member of the Order of the British Empire by the United Kingdom, even though he sang the naughty bit about Her Majesty and her imagined travail at Buckingham.
“His name is De Mighty Sparrow, de fella could sing calypso...” We recall that tribute paid to Slinger Francisco, Calypso King of the World, by his colleague and friend Carlton Joseph, Lord Blakie.
On Tuesday, July 9, Sparrow celebrated 89 years on the planet. God has been good to him for long life. In return for that gift of life, Sparrow has given his life to his God, baptised in the faith of the Seventh Day Adventists in New York, where he now spends most of this time.
Sparrow, without hesitation the king of calypso, has been decorated with the Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree by The University of the West Indies, a Lifetime Award by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, and was made a member of the Order of the British Empire by the United Kingdom, even though he sang the naughty bit about Her Majesty and her imagined travail at Buckingham.
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