Many mem­o­ries were shared by friends as the coun­try cel­e­brat­ed the life of ca­lyp­son­ian Win­ston ‘Ex­plain­er’ Hen­ry yes­ter­day.

Yes­ter­day morn­ing, cit­i­zens gath­ered at a pub­lic view­ing at Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, to pay re­spects to the “Lor­raine” singer, who passed away last Fri­day.

Through­out the view­ing, the best of Ex­plain­er’s discog­ra­phy was played, as many friends from the ca­lyp­so are­na were over­come with nos­tal­gia.

“The loss of the Ex­plain­er is a mag­nif­i­cent loss. It’s a gi­ant loss you know and he is, was a gi­ant in the ca­lyp­so art form,” said Du­ane O’Con­nor, the 2012 Ca­lyp­so Monarch.

O’Con­nor com­mend­ed Ex­plain­er for al­ways want­i­ng to help oth­ers, es­pe­cial­ly younger ca­lyp­so­ni­ans who were new to the ca­lyp­so stage.

“If you go off key, you know he will tell you ‘stay on key, you’re off right here, you have a wrong note here, fix this line’ you know. And he was al­ways there in re­hearsals and that was some­thing sig­nif­i­cant. He stayed at the re­hearsal from start to fin­ish,” O’Con­nor said.

Ed­win “Crazy” Ay­oung told Guardian Me­dia he will miss Ex­plain­er be­cause they en­tered the ca­lyp­so world around the same time in 1972.

Be­fore dra­mat­i­cal­ly burst­ing in­to song, dwelling on the lyrics from Ex­plain­er’s ‘Lor­raine’, an­oth­er ca­lyp­so stal­wart, Dr Will B (Williams Ban­nis­ter) shared what he great­ly ad­mired about him.

“He was al­ways one of the guys you could have ap­proached. If you want any ad­vice where ca­lyp­so is con­cerned, you al­ways could have ap­proached him and he al­ways talked his mind…His lega­cy will live on for sure, in all the young ones com­ing up and all the se­nior ones too.” Ban­nis­ter said.

The fu­ner­al for Ex­plain­er will be held to­day at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, with a pro­ces­sion to In­de­pen­dence Square to fol­low.

Michael Os­ouna, al­so known as Sug­ar Aloes, said he was con­fi­dent that many will turn out in their num­bers to say their last farewells to the ca­lyp­so vet­er­an.

“He was a pub­lic fig­ure and he gave a lot of mu­sic where the pub­lic is con­cerned and they re­mem­ber him for a lot…They will hold on to the mu­sic be­cause they don’t make them like that no more,” Os­ouna said.