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Calypso icon Slinger Francisco, dubbed ‘The Mighty Sparrow,’ dies at 91, his family says

Calypso icon Slinger Francisco, dubbed ‘The Mighty Sparrow,’ dies at 91, his family says
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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — 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 of the World.” He was 91. Francisco, who got his breakthrough in calypso music with his 1956 hi...

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