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CodeDS/UK/7096
NameConnor; Edric Esclus (1913-1968); Trinidadian singer, folklorist, actor
Dates1913-1968
GenderMale
BiographyEdric Connor (2 August 1913–13 October 1968) was a pioneering Caribbean singer, folklorist and actor who was born in Trinidad. He was one of the trailblazers of the calypso genre in the United Kingdom, where he migrated in 1944 and chiefly lived and worked until his death from ancylostomiasis in Putney, London, at the age of 55.

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