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Roy Cape
Roy Francis Cape (1942 – 5 September 2024) was a Trinidadian calypso saxophonist who was active as a band musician for more than 50 years. He was featured on hundreds of recordings and has released eight albums with the Roy Cape All Stars. Both of Cape's maternal grandparents came from Grenada. He never knew his father, who was a white American who came to Trinidad on business and left shortly after he was born. He grew up in poverty and lived with some neighbors. They sent him to the Sacred Heart Boys' School. Cape entered the Belmont Orphanage in 1953, where he received his first musical education. In 1961, he went on his first Caribbean tour to Grenada and Antigua, playing alongside Sel Wheeler. His band attracted a large following at Bill Abbott's club in Antigua. The tour proved unprofitable and Cape worked as a barber in Barbados for a while afterwards. Eventually he moved back to Trinidad and was invited to join Frankie Francis's band. Cape said that he did not want ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calypso Music
Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from Afro-Trinidadians during the early- to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century. It is characterized by highly rhythmic and harmonic vocals, and was historically most often sung in a French creole and led by a griot. As calypso developed, the role of the griot became known as a '' chantuelle'' and eventually, ''calypsonian''. As English replaced "patois" ( Antillean) as the dominant language, calypso migrated into English, and in so doing it attracted more attention from the government. It allowed the masses to challenge the actions of the unelected Governor and Legislative Council, and the elected town councils of Port of Spain and San Fernando. Calypso continued to play an important role in po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grenada
Grenada is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about north of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and the South American mainland. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Petite Martinique, and several small islands which lie to the north of the main island and are a part of the Grenadines. Its size is , with an estimated population of 114,621 in 2024. Its capital is St. George's, Grenada, St. George's. Grenada is also known as the "Island of Spice" due to its production of nutmeg and mace (spice), mace crops. Before the European colonization of the Americas, arrival of Europeans in the Americas, Grenada was inhabited by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous peoples from South America. Christopher Columbus sighted Grenada in 1498 during his Voyages of Christopher Columbus, third voyage t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belmont Orphanage
St. Dominic's Children's Home, formerly Belmont Orphanage, is located in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. It was established by French priest Mariano Forestier in 1871 and expanded with additional buildings in subsequent years. The ''Handbook of Jamaica'' dates the orphanage to 1892. It was home to the boxer Daniel James, the calypsonian Daniel Brown and the musicians Carl Barriteau and Roy Cape Roy Francis Cape (1942 – 5 September 2024) was a Trinidadian calypso saxophonist who was active as a band musician for more than 50 years. He was featured on hundreds of recordings and has released eight albums with the Roy Cape All Stars. Bot .... Music education was part of the Dominican sect's program at the orphanage's schools. Two wings of the orphanage were destroyed by fire in 1996. References Orphanages in North America Port of Spain {{Trinidad-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Francis
Frankie & The Heartstrings are a Sunderland-based indie rock band formed in 2008. The band's debut album, ''Hunger'' was released on 21 February 2011, and debuted at No. 32 on the UK albums chart. Known for their partying, they were labelled as the indie Mötley Crüe. History Singer Frankie Francis and guitarist Michael McKnight were at college together. Drummer Dave Harper and McKnight had played in local bands for years. McKnight and Harper met Francis at a Calypso music, calypso night in a pub the singer was running at the time in Sunderland Sunderland () is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the most p ... and formed the band in December 2008. Singer Francis had intended to play bass in the band, but Harper said that "He was the worst bassist ever". The band made their live debut in Christm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |