Chalkdust recalls Sparrow’s faith at City Hall tribute

A glimpse of Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co in his jock­ey shorts, qui­et­ly read­ing the Bible, was among the mem­o­ries Dr Hol­lis “Chalk­dust” Liv­er­pool shared as he paid trib­ute to his long­time friend and fel­low ca­lyp­son­ian dur­ing a spe­cial event at City Hall, Port-of-Spain, on Thurs­day.

Speak­ing at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val Mu­se­um’s Trib­ute to the Mighty Spar­row yes­ter­day, on the eve of Spar­row’s fu­ner­al cel­e­bra­tion to­day, Chalk­dust re­flect­ed on an oc­ca­sion when he vis­it­ed Spar­row’s ho­tel room in St Thomas to re­trieve a bor­rowed gui­tar.

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“Every­body knows him on the stage, singing, en­ter­tain­ing. But they don’t know him in his jock­ey shorts,” he said.