Mighty Sniper - Portrait of Trinidad

Original of the CLASSIC from the Mighty Sniper.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• portrait of trinidad
• mighty sniper
• sniper
• trinidad & tobago
• calypso
• kaiso

[Quelvisv]

I understand all the sentiment expressed and I will admit that this calypso attacks my emotions but in a different way. From the night Sniper sang this in 1965 and won, a Calypsonian named Pen Man claimed he had written this calypso. Because Pen Man was a bit psycho evidently no one took him seriously. Today in2010 Pen Man is a vagrant and a permanent patient in St. Ann's Hospital. On Sniper he never wrote a calypso and was jailed many times for fraud he was murdered in NY for a con in 1967.

[seukeran]

@Quelvisv yes...apparently it was written by Pen Man

[febeau]

My favorite calypso of all times......."Trinidad is my land and of it I am proud and glad"....."Small but over whelming in worth."

[Ultimate007Trini]

THEY DON'T MAKE EM SO AGAIN!~~

[merlLH10]

this is kaiso kaiso



[heads48]

@Quelvisv you should write a calypso

[lightninedge15]

any one know d chords for this song on guitar??

[ChristopherakaPaul]

Never knew of the story behind this, and if what you stated even scratches the surface of the true story, I would also say...how sad indeed.

I yet still appreciate this song very much.

[dcarasco]

@Quelvisv ==how sad.

[wiredread]

Calypso that speaks for itself. The greatest of all calypso.

[63Hinds]

@Quelvisv I do not know penman personally,but had friends who had known him very well some of them went to school with him so Sniper did not write this song period.

[MrRolandrichards]

it's a shame that's such a beautiful calypso has so much baggage

[SuperSnk1]

@seukeran . I heard Bomber say in an Interview some years ago that it was he who composed Portrait of Trinidad and that PenMan was paid for some lines which he had composed earlier in another Calypso and used by Bomber in this Calypso. Any views on this ?