Sir Lancelot was born Lancelot Victor Edward Pinard. After secondary education in Trinidad, he was sent to New York to study medicine. There he got afflicted by the "calypso bug" of which he could not dispense a cure, and consequently took up a guitar and started singing the calypso. A legendary bandleader, Gerald Clark, needed a singer at that time and had seen Lancelot perform "arias" at a concert, and approached him to sing at a recording date on the Varsity Label. Lancelot accepted, and very soon he was touring Oregon and California. It was in the latter that Lancelot’s fame broadened, as he got a part to sing in the movie Two Yanks In Trinidad. He acted in several other movies and his voice was featured in cartoons and films. "Scandal In The Family", which he sang in the movie I Walked With A Zombie, is his rendition on this CD. Sir Lancelot died in 2001.
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