A Review of 90 Mighty Sparrow Songs - Birdie Turns 90!
If you're like a couple billion of the warm blooded humans around the world, you probably use the internet daily, chances are you've probably seen one meme in your life. There is a meme that depicts a meeting of the musicians on someone's diverse music Playlist of bangers. Johann Sebastian Bach (18th century European classical composer) handshakes with Tupac Shakur (20th century African American rapper). Other memes take the joke further, mixing artists from different generations, continents and genres. It's a crazy world that only exists in fantasy and eclectic music playlists. The Mighty Sparrow is all those artists in one person. He has touched dozens of genres, styles, rhythms, eras and shaped sounds of Caribbean musics for decades. Yet, everything he recorded and performed was and is Calypso. Sparrow was already performing while Bob Marley was a little boy. He's still singing (when health allows) now that Marley has grands who are adults with hits on the US...