NACC mourns calypso legend Mighty Sparrow

The Na­tion­al Ac­tion Cul­tur­al Com­mit­tee (NACC) has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends and cul­tur­al com­mu­ni­ty fol­low­ing the death of leg­endary ca­lyp­son­ian Slinger Fran­cis­co, the Mighty Spar­row.

Spar­row, af­fec­tion­ate­ly known as “The Birdie”, died on Sun­day morn­ing, Sep­tem­ber 27, 2026. He was wide­ly recog­nised as the Ca­lyp­so King of the World and spent six decades en­ter­tain­ing au­di­ences in Trinidad and To­ba­go and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

The NACC said Spar­row’s con­tri­bu­tion to ca­lyp­so went be­yond his mu­sic, de­scrib­ing him as a leader who con­sis­tent­ly ad­vo­cat­ed for the re­spect, de­vel­op­ment and ad­vance­ment of ca­lyp­so and oth­er lo­cal art forms.