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Lord Kitchener

LC control no.n 96001110
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingLord Kitchener
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Variant(s)Kitchener
Young Kitchener
Lord Kitch
Kitch
Roberts, Aldwyn
Roberts, Alwin
Associated countryTrinidad and Tobago
Birth date1922-04-18
Death date2000-02-11
Place of birthArima (Trinidad and Tobago)
Place of deathPort of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)
Field of activityCalypso (Music)
Profession or occupationSingers Calypso musicians Composers Entertainers
Found inLord Kitchener's greatest calypso hits, 1960: label (Lord Kitchener) container (Aldwyn Roberts)
New York Times, Feb. 14, 2000 (Lord Kitchener, 77, calypso songwriter; d. Feb. 11, 2000, Port of Spain, Trinidad; b. in Arima, Trinidad)
Calypso calvacade, vol. 2 [SR] 197-?: container (Young Kitchener, vocals)
Shooting with Kitch, p1980: label (Alwin Roberts)
Oxford Companion to Black British History, accessed April 23, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Kitchener, Lord; Aldwyn Roberts; calypso singer, nightclub entertainer, nightclub owner/operator; born 18 April 1922 in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago; successful performer; toured Jamaica, passed to England on ship Empire Windrush (1948); recorded with Parlophone and Melodisc labels, Great Britain (1950s); moved from London to Manchester (1953); owned a nightclub in Britain; returned to Trinidad (1962); became one of the country's most celebrated calypsonians, was enormously popular in Trinidad and throughout the Caribbean; died 11 February 2000 in Port of Spain, Trinidad)
Discogs WWW site, February 6, 2023 (Lord Kitchener; real name: Aldwyn Roberts; Trinidadian calypso composer and recording artist; one of the most internationally famous calypsonians; variant names included Kitch, Kitchener, and Lord Kitch)
   <https://www.discogs.com/artist/53143-Lord-Kitchener>
Associated languageeng
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