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 ...

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. Trinidadian calypso, like 1980s rap ...

THE MIGHTY SPARROW HAS RUFFLED the feathers of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. The famed Calypso crooner’s spat with Markowitz stems from the West Indian Day Parade last week when he ...

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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 ...

Government will pay $2 million to acquire the memorabilia of the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco). Minister of Culture Lincoln Douglas said yesterday the money will go to the family of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...