De Mighty Sandy is the stage name for the songwriter, composer and singer Kenrick Sandiford. A Canadian citizen since 1985, be started singing in his native Barbados with a group called “The Caribbean Boys” which often worked on cruise ships in the Caribbean.
As a lead vocalist with several bands or as a solo act, Sandy has performed in Montreal, in Massachusetts, and has toured most of Ontario. Sandy has performed in various Caribbean clubs, at the CN Tower, as well as at the Royal York, Sheraton, Harbor Castle and Holiday Inn hotels in Toronto. In addition, he has participated.in the Northern Lights Festival Boreal in Montreal. He has several recordings to his credit including “Coucou’ and Flying Fish” (1991),and ”Cork It” and ”Sweet Coucou”(l996) • His ten track CD titled Instant Sweetness won Best ·Soca Album for the year at the 1999 Canadian Reggae Music Awards and was nominated for the Canadian Juno Awards.
In December 2007, he released a hot new full-length disc titled Tropical Heat Wave which was arranged by Ossie Gurley (arranger/producer of “Who Let the Dogs Out” by Anslem Douglas and “Moving to the Left” by Nigel Lewis). From this disc came the enjoyable “Caribbean Party Jam” and “Sweet Toronto”, surely a soca anthem (hat the City Of Toronto could adopt as its very own party tune to welcome visitors and to show some of the outstanding talent of its Caribbean community!
De Mighty Sandy is currently working to release, The Best of Sandy (which will feature ballads and reggae as well as his calypso/soca tunes) for the summer of 2012! ”Spring Garden Burning” is the single release for the 2011 summers calypso season in Canada and the Caribbean specially the Crop-Over Festival in Barbados which runs from June to mid-August. This song JS surely another sweet soca hit from this dynamic performer!
Sandy Died This Jan 2023
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