Alphonsus cassell biography

  • Alphonsus Celestine Edmund Cassell MBE, known mononymously as Arrow, was a Montserratian calypso and soca musician, regarded as the first superstar of soca from Montserrat.
  • Alphonsus Celestine Edmund Cassell MBE (16 November – 15 September ), known mononymously as Arrow, was a Montserratian calypso and soca musician.
  • He was born Alphonsus Cassell in Montserrat, one of nine children in a musical family.

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    Arrow (musician)

    Montserratian musician (–)

    Arrow

    MBE

    Birth nameAlphonsus Celestine Edmund Cassell
    Born()16 November
    Plymouth, Montserrat
    Died15 September () (aged&#;60)
    Lime Kiln Bay, Montserrat
    Genres
    Occupations
    • Musician
    • singer-songwriter
    InstrumentVocals
    Years active–
    Labels
    WebsiteOfficial website

    Musical artist

    Alphonsus Celestine Edmund CassellMBE (16 November [1] – 15 September ), known mononymously as Arrow, was a Montserratian calypso and soca musician, regarded as the first superstar of soca from Montserrat.[2] Internationally, his biggest hit song was "Hot Hot Hot" (), known from the original by Arrow and numerous later versions by other musicians.

    Early years

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    Born in Plymouth, Montserrat,[3] Cassell first performed at the age of 10 in a concert at the Montserrat Secondary School.[2] He began singing calypso in and took the Junior Monarch title that yea

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    Calypso artist Arrow dies

    Caribbean calypso and soca star Alphonsus Cassell, who performed under the professional name Arrow, died Sept. 15 from brain cancer complications on the island of Montserrat. He was

    Arrow was best known for his hit &#;Hot Hot Hot,&#; which former New York Dolls singer David Johansen, in his lounge-lizard persona of Buster Poindexter, turned into a U.S. hit.

    Born into a family that produced two calypso kings at Montserrat&#;s annual Christmas carnival, Arrow was influenced by the Trinidadian calypso star the Mighty Sparrow.

    He was himself crowned carnival calypso king four times and became a leader of the dance-oriented calypso derivative soca.

    &#;There&#;s something about soca music that gives you the feeling that you want to get up and dance,&#; he told the editors of &#;The Rough Guide to World Music.&#; &#;Forget whatever problems you have, let&#;s take you into some temporary Utopia, let&#;s forget the bills and just enjoy yourself.&#;

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    Holiday greetings!  I am recovering from the grip of the flu and a delightful low key, very snowy Christmas here in Alaska.  Among the presents I got from my kids was a toy gorilla in a Hawaiian shirt that sings Arrow's Hot, Hot, Hot.  This is proof of the amazing marketing and popularity of this tune that my kids know from a tape of songs by Sebastian from Disney's The Little Mermaid.  I am told that Arrow may be a headliner at the Fresh Water Yankee tent for at least part of the season this year.

    Arrow is the party king of soca and the most successful soca artist of all time.  His tune, Hot Hot Hot is the single most well known tune in all soca and has given him greater royalties and more acclaim than all of the other soca artists together.  The idea for the song came when Arrow was performing in a club in Holland.  With the crowd yelling for an encore and being out of rehearsed material, Arrow began chanting "How you feeling?" One sweaty