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It was a night of mu­sic, mem­o­ries, and mag­nif­i­cent per­for­mances on Ju­ly 26, as the lega­cy of the Mighty Spar­row was ho­n­oured in grand style. The South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA) came alive for Thank You, Spar­row—a star-stud­ded mu­si­cal trib­ute to the Ca­lyp­so King of the World, Slinger Fran­cis­co ORTT.

Pro­duced by Spek­taku­la Pro­mo­tions, the event paid heart­felt homage to the liv­ing leg­end, beloved across the Caribbean and be­yond, who turned 90 on Ju­ly 9. A full house and an elec­tric at­mos­phere set the stage for an un­for­get­table cel­e­bra­tion of Spar­row’s en­dur­ing con­tri­bu­tion to ca­lyp­so mu­sic and Caribbean cul­ture.

The trib­ute un­fold­ed as a jour­ney through Spar­row’s time­less reper­toire, re-imag­ined by 11 cel­e­brat­ed per­form­ers. Each act brought pas­sion, nos­tal­gia, and a unique in­ter­pre­ta­tion of Spar­row’s most icon­ic songs, cre­at­ing a pow­er­ful mu­si­cal mo­sa­ic of his un­matched ca­reer.