US congresswoman pays tribute to Mighty Sparrow

US Con­gress­woman Yvette Clarke has paid trib­ute to ca­lyp­so leg­end the Mighty Spar­row, de­scrib­ing him as a cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tion whose mu­sic and in­flu­ence tran­scend­ed the Caribbean and reached au­di­ences world­wide.

In a state­ment post­ed on Face­book, Clarke ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends and fans of the late ca­lyp­son­ian, whose re­al name was Slinger Fran­cis­co.

On be­half of the peo­ple of New York’s 9th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict and her fam­i­ly, Clarke ex­pressed sad­ness at the pass­ing of the in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned en­ter­tain­er, whom she de­scribed as a “peer­less icon”.