THE GREAT MUSICIAN EARL RODNEY HAS SADLY PASSED!

The great calypso, soca and steelband musician, composer and arranger Earl Rodney has passed.
Earl lead the Mighty Sparrow's excellent Troubadours band for a number years between the late 1960's and mid 1970’s and arranged a number of the Mighty Sparrow's calypso classics including the immortal hit called "Memories".
Additionally Earl worked on Lord Shorty's trademark soca classic "Sweet Music" as well as arranging all the tracks on Black Stalin's iconic 1978/1979 calypso/soca album called "Caribbean Unity".
Earl was also the main arranger for Solo Harmonites Steel Orchestra back in their glory days between 1968 and 1974 when they won the T&T National Large Bands Panorama Finals on four occasions.
Condolences goes out to all family, loved-ones and music colleagues of this great man and musician.
May his spirit journey smoothly to join the other great ancestors and may his soul rest in eternal peace! (Source:  Angelo Bissessarsingh's Virtual Museum of Trinidad & Tobago)