Francine Edwards (stage name: Singing Francine) has long been considered a singer and lyricist of great gifts. Having been properly nurtured as a chorister in the hallowed halls of St. Michael’s Cathedral, Barbados the island of her birth, she became a ballad singer, first, before branching out into the more lucrative realm of the calypso genre that she successfully cultivated after emigrating to the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (T & T).
Ironically. Edwards had her greatest days of success on the stages of heavy calypso contests in T & T. Basically, between 1971 and 1978 the years of regular competition Edwards became the first and only 5-time Calypso Queen in Trinidad. and Tobago. In addition to receiving numerous accolades over the years, Edwards was specially honored in 1975 by the government and people of Trinidad and Tobago, where she was presented with one of that nation’s highest awards, the Medal of Merit [M.O.M.], an insignia that officially follows her name and one that she particularly cherishes.
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