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Culture Matters DARA E HEALY Mih great-great-grandmother then said to me Bomber, darling, "The best things in life are free." So I hire a truck and went down by Courts Looking for the best things of every sort I pick up a computer, well, how you mean? Radio, video, stereo, TV, washing machine And when
The earliest calypsonians reign Part II SOMEWHERE between 1897 and 1900 Phillip Garcia, who sang under the sobriquet of Lord Executor, appeared on the calypso stage. The dates differ between calypsonian Atilla the Hun (Raymond Quevedo) and theatre historian Errol Hill, but most importantly, as calypso historian and ethnomusicologist Dr Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool writes in Calypsonians to Remember, Lord Executor revolutionised calypso by being the first calypsonians to sing in English. Chalkdust says Executor also revolutionised calypso by “moving from a single tone and cemented the ei...
The soul of calypso Lord Kitchener, left, Lord Superior and Melody - IT'S impossible to think of Carnival without calypso. From the plantations where slaves once performed to entertain or insult slave masters’ guests to the post-Emancipation Carnival celebrations, calypso always offered a platform for entertainment and education. If you listen closely to the music of today, you can hear the voices of the past: Lord Executor, Railway Douglas, Lord Beginner, Atilla the Hun and Spoiler. Those pioneering calypsonians laid the foundation for calypso to develop into the structure we know today. ...