Lord Brynner
1 record in the archive · 1970
About the artist
Lord Brynner (Kade Simon, born about 1937 in Erin, southern Trinidad; died 1985) was a Trinidadian calypsonian who took his sobriquet and shaved head from the actor Yul Brynner. He won the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Calypso Contest in August 1962 at the age of twenty-five, beating a field that included the Mighty Sparrow, and went on to score ska hits in Jamaica in the mid-1960s, recording some fifty seven-inch singles and thirteen LPs before dying young, destitute and in obscurity. "Vietnam Moratorium" appears among his recordings in the discography published by the Trinidad Guardian.…