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Calypso music lost one of its most emblematic voices Sunday with the death of Slinger Francisco, who was known on stage as the Mighty Sparrow and dubbed the “Calypso King
Slinger Francisco, the Mighty Sparrow, whose music helped carry Trinidad and Tobago’s calypso to the world, died Sept. 27 in New York at 91.
Mighty Sparrow, the calypso singer known as the “Calypso King of the World,” has died at 91. Slinger Francisco died Sunday in New York after a brief illness, according to ABC News reports. He spent mo...