Cy Grant
Cy Grant (8 November 1919 – 13 February 2010) was a Guyanese actor, musician, writer and poet. In the 1950s, he became the first black person to be featured regularly on television in the United Kingdom, mostly due to his appearances on the BBC current affairs show Tonight.
Following service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, Grant worked as an actor and singer, before establishing the Drum Arts Centre in the 1970s. In the 1980s, he was appointed director of Concord Multicultural Festivals. A published poet and author of several books, including his 2007 memoir Blackness and the Dreaming Soul, Grant was made an Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University in 1997, and a member of the Scientific and Medical Network in 2001. In 2008, he assisted in the founding of an online archive to trace and commemorate Caribbean airmen of the Second World War.
A father of four children, Grant lived with his wife, Dorith, in Highgate, London.
Early life
Grant was born in the village of Beterverwagting, Demerara, British Guiana (modern-day Guyana), one of seven children in a close-knit middle-class family. His father was a Moravian minister and his mother a music teacher originally from Antigua. At the age of 11, he moved with his family to New Amsterdam, Berbice. After leaving high school, Grant worked as a clerk in the office of a stipendiary magistrate but was unable to study law overseas due to a lack of funds.
Podcasts:
Calypso
ALBUMS
- Calypso released: 2005
Banda Calypso Ao Vivo
ALBUMS
- Banda Calypso Ao Vivo released: 2001
Banda Calypso
ALBUMS
- Acústico released: 2008
- Banda Calypso Volume 6 released: 2008
- Banda Calypso, Volume 10 released: 2007
- Pelo Brasil released: 2006
- Banda Calypso, Volume 8 released: 2005
- Banda Calypso, Volume 7: na Amazônia released: 2005
- Banda Calypso, Volume 5: ao vivo released: 2004
- Banda Calypso, Volume 4 released: 2003
- Banda Calypso, Volume 2: ao vivo released: 2002
- Banda Calypso Ao Vivo released: 2001
- Volume 1 released: 1999
- Meu Encanto released:
- As 20 Mais released:
- Banda Calypso, Volume 11 released:
- Banda Calypso, Volume 3 released:
- Os maiores sucessos released:
Pelo Brasil
Released 2006- Abertura
- A Lua Me Traiu
- Pra Me Conquistar
- Ainda Te Amo
- Tô Carente
- Passe De Mágica
- Perdeu o Trono
- Deixa Eu Sonhar
- Esqueça Meu Coração
- Anjo Bandido
- Tudo De Novo
- Nem Sim Nem Não
- Não Não
- Mistura De Amor
- Isso É Calypso
- Para Belém
- Tchau Pra Você
- Se Quebrou
- Ouvindo o Rádio
- Pra Todo Mundo Ver
- No Bate Papo
- Calypso Pelo Brasil
Banda Calypso, Volume 5: ao vivo
Released 2004- Abertura
- Temporal
- Chamo por você
- Me telefona
- Príncipe encantado
- Dançando Calypso
- Deusa da paixão
- Solidão
- Não faz sentido
- Desfaz as malas
- Maridos e esposas
- Como uma virgem
- Fórmula mágica
- Choro por você
- Esperando por você
- Cumbia de amor
- Dudu
- Cheiro do Pará
- Sem medo de falar
- Odalisca / Gringo lindo / Vendaval
Banda Calypso, Volume 11
- Abertura
- Arrepiou
- Sonho Bonito
- Um Beijo Seu
- Feita Pra Te Amar
- Nessa Balada
- Balanço do Norte
- Parangolado
- Louca Sedução
- Só Pra Você e Eu
- Muito Além do Prazer
- Doce Mel
- Nós Dois
- Bye
- Objeto de Desejo
- Eu Te Agradeço Senhor (Obrigado)
- Cantando o Amor (Arrebenta)
- Merengue Sensual
- A Chave Perdida
- Por Você
- Acelerou
Banda Calypso, Volume 3
- Chamo por você
- Temporal
- Príncipe encantado
- Me telefona
- Cheiro do pará
- Esperando por você
- Só vai dar eu e você
- Pot-pourri: Warilou / Te quero / Feitiço
- Love You Mon Amour
- Formula magica
- Maridos e esposas
- Não faz sentido
- Zouk Love
- Pot-pourri de Carimbó: Tia Mariquinha / Vai buscar a flor
- Desfaz as malas
- Conto de fadas
Calypso
Calypso
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- We Move the Jumpin Hype! released: 1996
- Volume 3 released:
Volume 3
- Chamo por você
- Temporal
- Principe Encantado
- Me telefona
- Cheiro do Pará
- Esperando por você
- Só vai dar eu e você
- Pot-Pourri (Warilow - Te Quero - Feitiço)
- Love You Mon Amour
- Fórmula Mágica
- Maridos e esposas
- Não Faz Sentido
- Zouk Love
- Pot-Pourri de Carimbó (Tia Mariquinha - Vai Buscar a Flor)
- Desfaz as malas
- Conto de Fadas
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by France Gall
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by Calypso
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by Larrikin Love
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by Calypso
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by Roger Whittaker
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by Ten Tenors
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by Spiderbait
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by Rachael Sage
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by Gall France
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by Van Dyke Parks
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by Harry Belafonte
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by John Denver
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by Wolf Biermann
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by Chris Brown
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by Calypso
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by Mighty Sparrow
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by Suzanne Vega
Calypso
by: France GallIl me disait y'a qu'le look qui compte
Et moi bien sûr j'me suis pas rendu compte
Qu'il regardait par dessus mon épaule
Cette fille lui a fait le coup du sang chaud
Et moi j'avais pas la couleur de peau
Pour le calypso
Besame mucho
Vertige des pays chauds
Il disait : let's go
J'ai besoin d'autre chose
Calypso
Il rêvait tout haut
Danser là-bas bientôt
Le calypso, tico tico tico
Calypso
C'est vrai qu'ici c'est pas les paillettes
C'est pas non plus la mort qui nous guette
Derrière les grands chapeaux, les sombreros
Et moi j'les trouve trop sucrés leurs sirops
Même si l'soleil d'ici n'brille pas si haut
Pour le calypso
Besame mucho
Vertige des pays chauds
Il disait : let's go
J'ai besoin d'autre chose
Calypso
Rythmo latino
Danser là-bas bientôt
Le calypso, tico tico tico
Calypso
A chacun ses héros
Lui Dario Moreno
Moi Police ou Toto (calypso, una storia retro)
Moi Elton ou Bowie
Et lui Luis Mariano (calypso, amore pasado)
Moi Janis ou Carly
Et lui Gloria Lasso (calypso)
Calypso
C'est pas l'homme qu'il me faut
A chacun ses héros
Moi Police ou Toto
Lui Dario Moreno (calypso, amor latino)
Adios Roico,
Hasta luego
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