Resh­ma Ra­goonath

"Yet again the ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty has been plunged in­to mourn­ing. We have lost an icon. He was one of the ear­ly mon­archs in the ca­lyp­so are­na. He had good mu­sic and was al­ways will­ing to share his knowl­edge," Kom­man­da said."It is our loss," he added.Strik­er made a name for him­self, par­tic­u­lar­ly with his po­lit­i­cal and so­cial com­men­taries.He won the Ca­lyp­so King ti­tles, as they were then known, con­sec­u­tive­ly in 1958 and 1959 with his ren­di­tions of Don't Blame the PNM, Can't Find a Job to Suit Me, Ban the Hoola Hoop and Com­par­i­son.The fu­ner­al ser­vice for Strik­er will be held at 3.30 pm at Bel­grove's, Or­ange Grove Road, Tacarigua. He will be cre­mat­ed at 5 pm.