Aaron Duncan's dream comes true with Sparrow collab

aron Duncan has literally made his dream come true.
The 19-year-old artiste, who dreamt in March that he collaborated with the Mighty Sparrow, has seen that dream come alive.
On Tuesday, Duncan released Legacy, his collaboration with the Calypso King of the World.
The song was recorded in August and in September; Duncan flew to New York to shoot the video with the calypso legend fondly known as Birdie.
“I feel a sigh of relief because since I dreamt that dream, for about six/seven months I had anxiety every day,” Duncan told Loop News.
Recalling the journey to realising his dream, Duncan said in March he had the dream that he was to do a song with Sparrow. He said he woke up and immediately started working on the song.
“I told my parents and everyone was doubting that I could make this happen because he not here, he has have mobility issues, people weren’t sure if he could walk or sing still but I said nah I want to make this happen. I reached out to him and asked if he would be open to doing a collaboration with me and he said anything for you Aaron. We have that chemistry from long time,” he recalled.
The video opens with a younger Duncan performing Education with Sparrow. That is his favourite song from the bard, he told Loop.
The timing was right for Duncan who had reached out to Sparrow many times to do a collab but couldn’t because at the time he wasn’t writing or producing his own music.
Due to his love for music and a need to take the financial stress off his and his parents’ pockets, Duncan started writing and producing his own music for two years. That gave him the confidence to work on the song for Sparrow.
“I said I have the facilities to write and produce the music and get it done and I said I would get it written and done to you in two days. My whole family was vex with me because I promise that and I didn’t know how it was going to happen, but I did it and from the moment he heard it he said let’s get it on,” he said.
​He said the day they recorded the song was the day they heard Blaxx had died which really impressed upon him the importance of celebrating our legends while they are still alive.
Duncan said the project was a historic one in that it was Sparrow’s first full collaboration with another artiste. The calypso king had previously done a feature on Machel Montano’s remake of Congo Man.
He said once the song was recorded, the other challenge was the making of the video.
“The dream wasn’t done yet. We had to get a music video and there was more doubt that I could do it because he is living in New York. So we went to New York in September to film the video with Sparrow and that was one of the greatest experiences in my 19 years of life,” he said.
Asked how he feels during the journey to realizing his dream, Duncan said he was nervous.
“I was nervous because everything still feels like I am dreaming,” he said. “I guess it was doubt inside myself, I didn’t think it would reach so far to get a recording with him and see him after so long and to do a video on a song that I wrote and produced. And he did it willingly.”
As a youth who believes in calypso music and wants to see the genre endure, Duncan said the collaboration shows that we could easily revive it, especially for the younger generation.
“Calypso is still alive; we just have to know how to modify it. This song is a combination of calypso and soca. We could easily bring this back and I am basically showing the world that we as young people should never forget where we came from. Sparrow is the calypso king of the world and a  lot of young people are in awe of him.”
Legacy is Duncan’s third release for the 2023 season. (Source, the Loop, Oct 13,2022)