The Mighty Sparrow is nearly 80 and was seriously ill not so long ago, but you would hardly know it.
The Calypso King is in Guyana for a concert at the Palm Court tonight and though from his appearance one could see that all was not well with his body, his voice tells a different tale. “How many of you in this room would exchange 80 for 20?” he asked, when he engaged a small but captive group of media workers at a press conference yesterday.
Sparrow, born Slinger Francisco, turns 80 on July 9, 2015. He said he was excited for the day to come because he would be in the