Every day (we hope) The Oregonian Music Blog will post a song of the day for you to enjoy. It might be a new song or just be an excuse to geek out over our favorite bands. But it will always be worth ...

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 nom de plume The Mighty Sparrow has proven apt for Slinger Francisco. The singer’s birthplace — Grand Roy, Grenada, a country village better known for crops than calypso — is as unassuming as his ...

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 ...

Less than a month away from Ted Leo's The Brutalist Bricks, the '80s-hardcore influenced 13-track jammer that constitutes Ted and Rx's Matador debut. "The Mighty Sparrow" is a bright and mighty opener ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Many great things have emerged from Trinidad and Tobago. Footballer Dwight Yorke, novelist Sir V.S. Naipaul and calypso king the Mighty ...

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