The Mighty Terror

Dubbed "The Golden Voice" in honor of his remarkable baritone, the Mighty Terror was a key exponent of the calypso sound and culture that emerged in Britain in the years following World War II. Born Fitzgerald Henry in Anguilla Village, Trinidad, on January 13, 1921, he studied trumpet as a child and also sang in his church and school choirs. The success of 1947's "Negroes Know Thyself" earned the Mighty Terror an invitation to play the Calypso Palace Tent, and in 1950 he cut his first 78 release, "Changing of the Indian Song." With a growing number of West Indian natives sett...