(1941-09-24)24 September 1941 San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
Died
28 December 2022(2022-12-28) (aged 81) San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
Genres
Calypso
Occupation(s)
Singer, Songwriter, Griot
Years active
1959–2022
Musical artist
Leroy Calliste (24 September 1941 – 28 December 2022), better known as Black Stalin, was a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago known for his lyrics against European colonial oppression. He won the Calypso Monarch competition on five occasions and the Calypso King of the World title in 1999.
Leroy Calliste (24 September 1941 – 28 December 2022), better known as BlackStalin, was a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago known for his lyrics...
Vasily Iosifovich Stalin Dzhugashvili (Georgian: ვასილი იოსების ძე სტალინი ჯუღაშვილი, Russian: Василий Иосифович Сталин Джугашвили; 21 March 1921 – 19...
The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire black comedy film written and directed by Armando Iannucci and co-written by David Schneider and Ian Martin...
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who was the...
implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin. Stalin had previously made a career as a gangster and robber, working to fund...
of Joseph Stalin. She was born in Baku to a friend of Stalin, a fellow revolutionary, and was raised in Saint Petersburg. Having known Stalin from a young...
four consecutive occasions between 1968 and 1971. Rastafari calypsonian BlackStalin won the title on five occasions between 1979 and 1995. The contest is...
Yezhovshchina (Ежовщина, 'period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to consolidate power over the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
of deaths attributable to the Soviet revolutionary and dictator Joseph Stalin vary widely. The scholarly consensus affirms that archival materials declassified...
The accusation that Joseph Stalin was antisemitic is much discussed by historians. Although part of a movement that included Jews and rejected antisemitism...
or "the"). Ajamu André Toussaint Anslem Douglas Arrow Atilla the Hun BlackStalin Byron Lee & the Dragonaires Calypso Rose Chalkdust Charles D. Lewis Crazy...
The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style), until the October Revolution...
needed] was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she became an international...
The Black Ribbon Day, officially known in the European Union as the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism and also referred to...
historians and other authors have carried out a comparison of Nazism and Stalinism, with particular consideration to the similarities and differences between...
The failure of Operation Barbarossa reversed the fortunes of Germany, and Stalin was confident that the Allied war machine would eventually defeat Germany...
Douglas Marlon Asher Atilla the Hun Babla & Kanchan Billy Ocean Beenie Man BlackStalin "Boogsie" Sharpe/Earl Brooks Bunji Garlin Calypso Rose Chalkdust Charles...
Party: a Short History. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1937. Robert Black, Stalinism in Britain: A Trotskyist Analysis. London: New Park Publications, 1970...
like The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (1997), these essays are both nuanced and balanced, presenting Lenin and Stalin as human...