two musicians passED on this week - calypsonian "Brigo" and guitar man Tony Voisin

Calypsonian Samuel "Brigo" Abraham has died. He passed away on Tuesday afternoon at the Port of Spain General Hospital. Born in 1940, in Chaguanas. He was known on stage as the Mighty Brigo. Brigo made the public sit up and pay attention in 1971 when he sang Barnabas in Lord Kitchener’s Calypso Revue tent. In 1977 he released the single Shake Up, recorded on a seven-inch, vinyl disc, with musical accompaniment by Pelham Goddard and Charlie’s Roots. In 1986, the coming out year of David Rudder with The Hammer and Bahaia Girl, Brigo again created his own unique niche with yet another smash hit—Limbo Break. Two years later he again grabbed attention with Leh Me Go. Through the years, other hits Brigo thrilled fans with are Doh Beat Mama Popo, Walk in the Dark, Do So Ent Like So, Obey and Voodoo Man.
In the mid 80s, Brigo’s popularity mushroomed to nationwide status when he exploited his facial attributes to the max in a television advertisement for an insect repellant with the catch phrase of “Det Kill Dem Dead.”  
​He had been battling cancer for several years.  
Source:  Trinidad Guardian

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Having fallen on ill health in recent years, former Charlie’s Roots guitarist Tony Voisin, 64, passed away on Tuesday. The nephew of late parang queen Daisy Voisin, Tony was the dynamo of the Roots frontline as he slapped his trusted axe in the band’s frontline with late bassist Eldon Oliver, percussionists Clarence Ross and Colin Stephens, drummers Vernon Headley and Vonrick Maynard. Voisin’s musical colleagues will remember him as the laidback guy in the band at the original Roots bandroom at the corner of Oxford and Dundonald Street, Port-of-Spain.
Voisin spent three decades devoting his time to playing the guitar, not just for the band but his work was featured on so many recordings that have travelled through time, generation to generation.
His work appeared on a range of albums and singles like the late Mighty Duke’s 21st Century Man, Gabby’s ‘Til Now, Gillo’s Ban Fai, Raw Kaiso Volumes One and Two and Big Up, the Grammy-nominated album by British reggae group Aswad. In his spare time he taught music voluntarily at the Birdsong Music School in Tunapuna.
Source:  Trinidad Guardian

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