Lord Invader
Lord Invader
Top Songs
| 1 | Barrack Room Scandal | ||
| 2 | Caro at Point Cumana | ||
| 3 | Tee Way, Tee Way | ||
| 4 | Labor Day Carnival | ||
| 5 | Barbados, Barbados |
Albums
Sep 2020 • 6 songs
Nov 2018 • 2 songs
Sep 2000 • 26 songs
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Biography
Most famous as the composer of "Rum and Coca-Cola," Lord Invader was a popular calypso performer in both his native Trinidad and New York, recording from the late '30s through the early '60s. Born Rupert Westmore Grant, he made his recording debut for RCA Bluebird in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in 1937, with a song about boxer Joe Louis, and continued to record (for both RCA and Decca) and place in the upper reaches of Trinidadian calypso competitions through the early '40s, when he also began to perform and make recordings in New York City. In Trinidad in September 1943, visiting...