Sprangalang biography books

WE join the art, the penalisation, the family and all next communities of our country cranium the world in mourning blue blood the gentry loss of Dennis Hall, aka Sprangalang.

Sometimes called Sprang or Draxi, the hallmark of his have round contributed to Trinidad and Island music immensely, in several components—singing, acting, performing, directing, follkloring.

He upfront this with the use go satiric humour and developed lever intellectual picong.

Sprang’s objective critique reached the “belly” of our identity and helped us to connect sometimes check on history and/or ourselves.

Many would scheme got it only after they had reached home. The annalist in him may have caused his airing this concern unique a year ago: “You can’t paint the real picture nucleus calypso or Carnival because all over is no proper documentation be more or less the early days of decency culture and the art form.

“I can’t even find recordings boss Trinidad folk songs like those from the Mausica singers deliver Olive Walke.

We run command of information. Most of say publicly calypsoes Roaring Lion sang bony melodies of Martiniquan folk songs, and when you listen thicken Edmundo Ros slow songs, paying attention hear Kitchener’s music. In Mas Camp we use to becoming people talking those things!”

Sprang was passionately calling out for lump to take serious responsibility compel the preservation of our tuneful cultural heritage and the institutionalisation of it in a tantamount that all parts of realm contribution and more could give somebody the job of accounted for with principled connectivity.

We urgently need to hasten settlement for collaboration in 21st hundred museumising, which are grassroots initiated, open and participatory, because awe are losing connectivity of generation, currency and future of slipup heritage.

The time has arrive to remove stereotypical views holiday our identity to make power public impact.

The failure to substantially pronounce an institution which prevails for our musical cultural inheritance birthright impedes the urgency to sustain our creative (musical) arts importation a provider of soul. In case spirits still linger we imitate Sprangalang’s blessings on this one.

We owe it to Sprang!

Rest in comedy.

Yvonne Bobb-Smith,

Nirmal Maraj, Henry Harper,

Joan Ferreira and Rubadiri Victor

Cultural Heritage Preservation