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Symposium to examine Sparrow’s career

Global - The storied career of the artist who has been the most renowned name ever in the field of calypso, Mighty Sparrow, will be examined in a symposium presented by the Trinidad & Tobago Folk Arts Institute, in collaboration with the Medgar Evers College School of Professional & Community Development, on Friday evening, April 8. Titled “Just Like That, Sparrow Turned 80,” the symposium will be held in the Mary Pinkett Lecture Hall on the Medgar Evers College campus in Brooklyn, NY.

The symposium’s title hints at the unlikely reality for veteran watchers of the inimitable “Birdie,” regarded by many as calypso’s enduring evergreen, that he has indeed joined the octogenarian class as of last July. It’s not difficult to imagine that some who recall Sparrow when he was fresh out of the blocks in the 1950s -- and followed his remarkable career, through those frequent portrayals in song of himself as the embodiment of male prowess -- would probably not be adjusting readily to his becoming an 80-year-old.
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