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Ebenezer Calender And His Maringer Band
12+ albums
africaafricansierra leone
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Ebenezer Calendar was a cultural musician, historian and social commentator who used his popular maringa music to entertain and Ebenezer Calendar educate his fellow countrymen. He was born in Freetown on November 19, 1912 of a Jamaican father and a Sierra Leonean mother. Calendar had an interrupted primary school career, attending Bishop Edwin Tabernacle and U.B.C. primary schools. According to some sources, this was the result of the hard times which the family experienced after the death of Calendar's father. Calendar left school at the age of fifteen because his mother could not afford to pay his way through secondary school. Other sources, however, suggest that Calendar dropped out of school of his own free will, influenced largely by his young friends. He joined the Public Works Department (P.W.D.) in 1927 as an apprentice carpenter. By 1930, he had become a qualified carpenter, and he was employed by Pa Alimamy Boungie, an undertaker at Kissy Street. Pa Boungie's undertaker shop used to conduct wake-keeping ceremonies for bereaved families. Thus Calendar would learn coffin-making during the day, and at night he would be among the men Pa Boungie would send to sing at wake-keeping ceremonies. About this time, Calendar and two of his friends formed a small musical group. They practiced on open grounds, and on-lookers would sometimes give them money. Later, they began getting invitations to perform at weddings, parties and other festive occasions. All this was just part-t
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Cost Of Living Nar Freetown
4332Me Nar Poor Old Man Nor Do Me So
3933Arria Baby
3784Fire Fire Fire
3235Arria Baby - Ebenezer Calender And His Maringer Band
216Me Nar Poor Old Man Nor Do Me So - Ebenezer Calender And His
187Cost Of Living Nar Freetown - Ebenezer Calender And His Mari
138The Jambo Song
49Cost of Living Nar Greetown
110Ebenezer Calender And His Maringer Band / Arria Baby
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Marvellous Boy
Marvellous Boy: Calypso From West Africa
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Marvellous Boy (Calypso From West Africa)
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marvellous boy - calypso from west africa
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Marvellous Boy (Calypso From West Africa) [Honest Jon's Records HJRCD38]
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club cortez presents holiday mess side 1 - ruwe kant
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Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM
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marvellous boy: calypso from west-africa
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calypso from west africa
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Marvellous Boy, Calypso From West Africa
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Honest Jon's 2009 Marvellous Boy (Calypso From West Africa)
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Club Cortez presents Holiday Mess