Lord Pretender

Lord Pretender
▪ 2003
Aldric Farrell 
      Trinidadian calypso singer (b. Sept. 8, 1917, Tobago island, British colony of Trinidad and Tobago—d. Jan. 22, 2002, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago), during a 72-year career, was a master of “extempo” calypso, in which the performer spontaneously devises songs filled with intricate lyrics and rhymes, usually in response to suggested subjects shouted from the audience. Some musicologists considered extempo a forerunner of modern rap music. Pretender began performing his own songs at age 12, came in third in the first national Calypso Monarch competition in 1939, and won that prestigious competition in 1957.

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