Edric connor biography

Caribbean singer, folklorist and actor (1913–1968)

Edric Esclus Connor (2 August 1913 – 16 October 1968) was a Caribbean singer, folklorist and actor who was born in Trinidad and Tobago.

He was a performer of calypso in the United Kingdom, where he migrated in 1944 and chiefly lived and worked for the rest of his life until he died following a stroke in London, at the age of 55.^[1]

Early life and education

Edric Esclus Connor was born in 1913 in Mayaro, Trinidad.^[2] When he was 16 he won a Trinidad government scholarship to study engineering at the Victoria Institute, Port of Spain, in his spare time he studied Caribbean folk singing.^[2]

Career

During World War II he worked on the construction of the American naval air base in Trinidad.^[2] Having saved enough money to go to Britain, initially with the intention of continuing his engineering studies, he settled there in 1944, making his debut on BBC Radio two weeks la