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  Music of Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calypso was developed on the island of Trinidad, and has since become one of the major musical ancestors of diverse styles, including reggae, soca and rapso.
Calypso was popularized after the abolition of slavery and the ensuing growth of the Carnival festivals in the 1830s.
Kitchener was by far the most popular of the Young Brigade calypsonians, and he helped popularize calypso in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago   (1609 words)

  
 Lord Kitchener, calypso king and musical icon, dies at 77 - 2/12/00
Together with the Mighty Sparrow, Lord Kitchener is celebrated as the greatest of the two-island nation's long, illustrious succession of calypso artists who gained fame in their homeland.
Born Aldwyn Roberts, Lord Kitchener was different from the time he sang in his first calypso tent at the age of 15 for 12 cents.
He dominated the calypso world in the 1960s and 1970s with tunes such as "Mama dis is Mas" and "Rainorama" -- a comic look at the hysteria created among his countrymen when Carnival was delayed in 1973 because of an outbreak of polio.
www.detnews.com /2000/obituaries/0002/14/02120142.htm   (544 words)

  
 Lord Kitchener Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musician Directory
Kitchener, whose real name was Aldwyn Roberts, succumbed to a severe infection brought on by a blood disorder and organ failure, said Dr. Leslie Ann Roberts, assistant general manager at the Eric Williams Medical Complex on the outskirts of the Trinidad capital.
Calypso, which is related to reggae, often has satirical or political lyrics and features steel pan drums made of 55 gallon drums.
In Arima, Kitchener was first hired to sing calypso for 12 cents but he went on to performances in England after World War II with calypso artists Lion, Atilla and Growling Tiger.
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 Lord Kitchener (calypsonian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lord Kitchener (April 18, 1922 - February 11, 2000) was one of the most internationally famous calypsonians.
Born Aldwyn Roberts in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago, Kitchener's success began after he moved to England and soon became massively popular there.
Kitchener is honoured with a statue in Port-of-Spain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Kitchener_(calypsonian)   (170 words)

  
 LORD KITCHENER - ALDWYN ROBERTS
I would like to make a contribution on the life and work of the local Lord Kitchener, how he got or chose his sobriquet and summarise some relevant data on the man, the original Lord Kitchener, his life, his works and even his exploits.
The Lord Kitchener referred to in the song and the man our Kitchener emulated and no doubt admired was officially the Lord Kitchener of (1850-1916) Khartoum.
Lord Kitchener of Khartoum was born Horatio Hubert Kitchener in Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland, in June 1850.
www.nalis.gov.tt /Biography/Calypso_LordKitchener_sobriquet.htm   (1042 words)

  
 ICE RECORDS :: LORD KITCHENER
By 1945, Kitchener was singing in the House of Lords tent, with colleagues Lady lere, Lord Ziegfield and Caresser.
Yet Kitchener departed Trinidad in late 1947, stirred by a mixture of career ambition (he longed to be a recording artist) and curiosity about calypso’s place in the international music landscape.
Kitchener is one of the most distinguished architects of the lively arts in this century, and his mythic efforts exist in the eternal present, rallying the poor of means, reviving the poor of spirit.
www.icerecords.com /LordKitchener.htm   (3309 words)

  
 Lord Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Lord Kitchener had begun to make his name outside the Caribbean within a couple of years of arriving at Tilbury docks in England aboard the M.V. Windrush in June 1948, without a clue of what the future held for him.
There was another calypso to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1952….., and in 1957, his calypsos having become popular in Africa, he was invited to write a national anthem for Ghana.
One of the calypsos from his English years – Drink a Rum and a Poncha Crema, celebrating the pleasures of exile city-life – is still the archetypal good-time Christmas song in Trinidad.
www.calypsoland.com /lkitchener.htm   (592 words)

  
 The Calypso Tent of the Air - A Tribute to Lord Kitchener
Lord Kitchener ("Kitch"), the Grandmaster, was born April 18, 1922, as Aldwyn Roberts in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago ("T&T;"), into a family of six.
Thus, when fellow calypsonians were tempted to relax, feeling that Kitchener's success abroad, combined with his involvement in clubs, business, and real estate, had removed Kitch from the scene, they soon discovered the error of their thinking.
Kitchener's Tent had to be the longest running Calypso Tent (in the world?).
www.kaiso.net /kitchbd.html   (2914 words)

  
 Calypso With An Edge
Ska, Rock Steady, and Reggae are all spin-offs of calypso as Jamaicans chose to differentiate themselves culturally from their southern cousins.
Calypso is the new world, contemporary evolution of the jester and troubadour traditions from
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 Kavery Kaul.com
One Hand Don't Clap captures the story of calypso and the emergence of soca, or soul calypso, through the eyes of two legendary artists, Lord Kitchener, the Grandmaster of the music, and Calypso Rose, the first woman to break through in a traditionally male arena.
This nonfiction feature film follows the music with its lively, irreverent characters, from New York recording studios to the awesome magic of Trinidad Carnival, where a star is born when newcomer David Rudder wins the title of Monarch of the Year.
As a quiet, softspoken young girl, Calypso Rose shocked her family with her sassy, provocative stage presence.
www.kaverykaul.com /oneh_synopsis.shtml   (265 words)

  
 A Tribute to Lord Kitchener
Lord Kitchener ("Kitch"), the Grandmaster, was born April 18, 1922, as Aldwyn Robertsin Arima, Trinidad and Tobago ("T&T;"), into a family of six.
Because Kitch has won the Road March honors more often than anyone else, most people associate Lord Kitchener's name with Road March tunes - that is, the tune played by a majority of the revelers on Carnival Monday and Tuesday as they pass certain preannounced spots in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Kitchener's Tent has to be the longest running Calypso Tent (in the world?).
www.tntisland.com /kitchbio.html   (2807 words)

  
 7MetaSearch.com - [Calypso Music]
Calypso is a unique form of music that is an integral part...
Although unfamiliar with Calypso music we had a hunch that these recordings would be rich with comedic possibilities...
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in the British and French colonial islands of the Caribbean at about the start of the 20th century' it is an especially integral
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 Latin Music Online - Free MP3 Downloads - Ringtones - Artists - LatinMusic Videos
Calypso was originally sung in French, but the first recorded calypso song, Julian Whiterose's Iron Duke in the Land (1914), was already in English.
Mighty Sparrow (Ten To One Is Murder, 1960; Dan Is The Man, 1963; Melda, 1966) and, to some extent, Lord Kitchener (The Road, 1963; Rainorama, 1973) continued to dominate during the 1960s.
Calypso itself was torn between the revolutionary pressure coming from David Rudder, whose The Hammer (1986) was influenced by pop and soul, and the conservative attitude of Leroy "Black Stalin" Calliste, whose Caribbean Man (1979) harked back to the classics.
latin.music.us   (4152 words)

  
 Calypso Dreams - Tuesday October 7 2003 - Mill Valley Film Festival
The triumphant human spirit and dynamic musical genius of elderly Calypso singers make this revelatory film an experience in cultural rediscovery.
From Lord Kitchener to Calypso Rose, the foremost Calypso artists past and present are spotlighted in interviews and performance.
While the 50s' popularization of what would now be considered world music is gracefully addressed by Harry Belafonte, Calypso is revealed as a vibrant art form steeped in African griot tradition, forged on Caribbean plantations and practiced today in the bars and streets of Trinidad and Tobago.
www.cafilm.org /mvfffilms/66.html   (110 words)

  
 LORD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Search the LORD Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
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Find graves of people named LORD at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/L/LORD.htm   (99 words)

  
 Calypso: Resources
Historical/anthropological examination of calypso, with particular attention to diverse performance settings for the music and the impact of the recording industry.
Overview of the calypso art form by one of its greatest exponents: Atilla the Hun (Raymond Quevedo).
Comprehensive study of calypso's roots in folk traditions, the emergence of diverse genres of calypso over time, and the centrality of the art form to the social and political life of Trinidad.
calypsoworld.org /noflash/resources.htm   (1283 words)

  
 Lord Kitchener
Trinidad calypso singer and songwriter known for his humorous party songs that often contained scathing political commentary.
Lord Kitchener's reputation as ruthless and repressed is well- earned, says Niall Ferguson (The Sunday Telegraph)
Family of Trinidadian calypso icon Lord Kitchener may move his remains to a new grave site (AP Worldstream)
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0872600.html   (177 words)

  
 Lord Kitchener - Love In The Cemetery - Last.fm
111 people have listened to Love In The Cemetery by Lord Kitchener.
Of all 737 people that have listened to songs by Lord Kitchener, this represents 15.1%.
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www.last.fm /music/Lord+Kitchener/_/Love+In+The+Cemetery   (81 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Lord Kitchener (Calypso)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lord-Kitchener-(Calypso)   (185 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Lord Kitchener Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Lord Kitchener can refer to: Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, prominent British soldier in Sudan, Boer War, and World War I Any of his heirs who have held the title of...
Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, prominent British soldier in Sudan, Boer War, and World War I
Any of his heirs who have held the title of Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
www.ipedia.com /lord_kitchener.html   (158 words)

  
 Lord Kitchener
In life, Lord Kitchener was one of two titans of the calypso firmament, straddling the world side by side with that other gargantuan of our time, the Mighty Sparrow.
In death, he leaves us with a corpus that will form one of the bones within the body of memory of the 20th century Caribbean.
The men liked the compositions which he accompanied on his guitar, and so he earned his first music money.
www.ecaroh.com /profiles/lord_kitchener.htm   (230 words)

  
 Lord Kitchener's Calypso Revue - Port of Spain - Reviews of Lord Kitchener's Calypso Revue - TripAdvisor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Lord Kitchener's Calypso Revue - Port of Spain - Reviews of Lord Kitchener's Calypso Revue - TripAdvisor
Lord Kitchener, one of the most famous calypso performers ever, puts on an annual event with many top calypso stars.
We currently do not have any Web articles about Lord Kitchener's Calypso Revue.
tripadvisor.com /Attraction_Review-g147389-d147594-Reviews-Lord_Kitchener_s_Calypso...   (466 words)

  
 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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11, 2000, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago), was called the “grandmaster of calypso” and was instrumental in popularizing that music internationally; he was especially admired for his melodious style and his witty, often bawdy, lyrics.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9045680   (676 words)

  
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While working in the accounting department of the Public Transport Services Corporation, he began his professional singing career as a back-up singer at Lord Kitchener's Calypso Revue.
His big break arrived in 1977 when he became the temporary lead singer for the Charlie's Roots music band, after Christopher "Tambu" Herbert became ill. His performance was so impressive that he became a co-lead singer with the band after Tambu returned.
Rudder is the writer of all his songs, and his only two crowns were in 1986 when he won both the Road March title ("The Hammer") and Calypso Crown ("The Hammer" and "Bahia Girl").
www.bestoftrinidad.com /calypso/rudder.html   (283 words)

  
 eBay - lord kitchener, Militaria, Records items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 Billboard: Calypso master Lord Kitchener dies at 77@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
NEW YORK-Caribbean calypso legend Lord Kitchener died Feb. 11 in Port- of-- Spain, Trinidad.
According to Deborah Jean Baptiste, spokeswoman for the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Center, Kitchener died in the hospital, where he was admitted 11 days earlier for kidney failure and bone marrow cancer.
Leslie Ann Roberts, assistant general manager at the center, confirms that Kitchener...
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:70485262&refid=ink_tptd_mag   (194 words)

  
 Bob Tarte's "Technobeat" Archives
Solid songs emerge to restore weaker moments even as late as the eleventh-hour, eleventh cut, and standards of mediocrity are such that Omar coasting is still a hoot.
Kitchener wields a huge personality which convincingly adapts to a myriad of climates: a gung-ho tribute to Trinidad's winning cricket team, a sympathetic portrait of an elderly local woman, a stinging complaint about racial prejudice, or a burlesque about a peculiar injection "Doctor Kitch" administers to a female companion.
The calypso- and mento-influenced brukdon music of Belize is presented with disarming directness on Shine Eye Gal (Corason/Rounder), in which the improbably-named Mini-Musical Female Duet sing a string of street-corner ambiance, colonialist-rooted ditties heavy on the nursery rhyme charm.
www.technobeat.com /COLUMNS/ROM.html   (3692 words)

  
 Lord Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, prominent British soldier in Sudan, Boer War, and World War I
Any of his heirs who have held the title Earl Kitchener
Calypso music singer born Aldwyn Roberts; see: Lord Kitchener (calypsonian)
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Lord-Kitchener.htm   (118 words)

  
 AP Online: Calypso King Lord Kitchener Dies@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
AP Online: Calypso King Lord Kitchener Dies@ HighBeam Research
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) -- Lord Kitchener, who rose from a country boy with no musical training to become the ``Grand Master'' of calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, one of the most musical of Caribbean nations, died Friday.
Together with the Mighty Sparrow, Lord Kitchener is celebrated as the...
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 Lord Kitchener Quiz
#4: What was the first calypso tent that Kitchener perform in?
#6: What year did Kitchener win both the road march and calypso monarch in the same year?
#9: The police banned one of Kitchener's tune in the 1940's what was the name of the tune?
www.tntisland.com /kitchquiz.html   (153 words)

  
 trinidad music and other trinidad related information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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about the origin and nature of calypso music.
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