Photograph:
Lionel Belasco with singer Gracitia Faulkner in the United States, late 1950s.
Photograph:
Lionel Belasco with singer Gracitia Faulkner in the United States, late 1950s.
Belasco was a pianist, bandleader and composer/arranger, whose career extended from the early 1900s to the 1950s. He was a leading figure in the international dissemination and commercialization of calypso.
Courtesy of Gracitia Faulkner and Donald Hill.