lionel, belasco, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, february, . This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Lionel Belasco news newspapers books scholar JSTOR February 2017 Learn how and when to remove this template message Lionel Belasco Maracaibo Venezuela 1881 c 24 June 1967 was an American pianist composer and bandleader best known for his calypso recordings Contents 1 Biography 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksBiography editAccording to various sources Belasco was born in Maracaibo Venezuela the son of an Afro Caribbean mother and a Sephardic Jewish father He spent his early childhood in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in Trinidad He traveled widely in the Caribbean and South America in his youth absorbing a wide variety of musical influences He was leading his own band by 1902 and made his first phonograph recordings in Trinidad in 1914 1 See also editCalipsoReferences edit Richie Unterberger Artist Biography at AllMusic External links editLionel Belasco recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings https web archive org web 20110616102802 http www nalis gov tt Biography bio Lionel Belasco1 html nbsp This article on a musician from Trinidad and Tobago is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article about a United States keyboardist is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte This article about a United States composer born in the 19th century is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lionel Belasco amp oldid 1187574021, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
