Lionel Belasco
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Lionel Belasco (Maracaibo (Venezuela) 1881 – c. 24 June 1967) was from Trinidad and Tobago and was a pianist, composer and bandleader, best known for his calypso recordings.
Biography
[edit]According to various sources, Belasco was born in Maracaibo (Venezuela), the son of an Afro-Caribbean mother and a Sephardic Jewish father. He spent his early childhood in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and grew up in Trinidad. He traveled widely in the Caribbean and South America in his youth, absorbing a wide variety of musical influences. He was leading his own band by 1902, and made his first phonograph recordings in Trinidad in 1914.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Richie Unterberger, "Artist Biography" at AllMusic.
External links
[edit]- Lionel Belasco recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110616102802/http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Biography/bio_Lionel_Belasco1.html
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