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.

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 ...

The Mighty Sparrow — the now-legendary calypsonian who burst on the Caribbean music scene in 1956 and soared into music history — is the subject of the free “Just Like That, Sparrow Turned 80” ...

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 ...

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 ...

The names Aldwyn Roberts and Slinger Francisco might not ring a bell in jazz circles, but trumpeter Etienne Charles' Kaiso helps to rectify that issue. Charles pays tribute to these two giants of ...

Connoisseurs of the music and literature of iconic calypsonian the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) can now add to their collection Sparrow Take Over: Essays on The Bard’s Art by editor Donna Benny.

Our Latin Roots segment today is with Ernesto Lechner of the syndicated radio show The Latin Alternative. He joins us to talk about The Mighty Sparrow, a musical giant who has been a defining force in ...

On Wednesday July 9, 2025, the Caribbean’s Calypso King celebrated his 90th birthday. That person is one of, if not our greatest cultural icons, that being, Dr. Slinger Francisco better known to all ...

"On the subject of calypso singers of Trinidad he was both knowledgeable and enthusiastic. The culture they sang about was tough, breezy, unsentimental. Vidia had written…'It is only in the calypso ...