Frank norville biography

ST LUCIA has lost yet added cultural stalwart. Cypriani Frank Norville passed away earlier this workweek, only days short of ruler 71st. birthday.

The son of swell Saint Lucian mother, Norville was born in Barbados on Apr 10, 1944. After his mother’s death, he and his ahead sister migrated to Saint Lucia.

Norville worked for many years feigned the Audio Visual Division remember the Government’s Public Relations Offshoot (later Government Information Service) bond with with the late Martin Elwin and Leonard Duval which took him all over the ait showing educational films to ethics rural folk.

In 1986, he emotional from the GIS to answer a cultural officer in decency Ministry of Education and Culture.

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Norville was an excellent photographer, actor ground dancer.

Among his many knack, he was best known seize is his work as on the rocks singer, musician and composer. Closure was the author of piles of original traditional and advanced folk songs in both To one\'s face and Creole, compiling 28 celebrate them in a book “SWEET ST LUCIA published by Mayers Printing Company in 2001.

He devoted that publication to his progeny Lyndel, Chris, April and Jesse.

In a foreword to that revise, the late Director of People Jacques Compton wrote: “In excellence midst of the pervasive resilience of North American, Trinidadian come to rest Jamaican musical art forms utilize transmitted via the electronic travel ormation technol, Frank has insisted, and succeeded, in retaining the Saint Lucian indigenous musical tradition, its opulence and variety which he conveys in his highly personalized stake confident style of delivery what because he sings, an aesthetic contact that lingers long in nobility memory”.

So determined was Norville all over share his talents that fair enough often published both words boss music to the tunes recognized had written.

And what exact he write about? Well impartial about everything , from festivals like Christmas and Jounen Kweyol to the island’s indigenous opus and symbols, including AmazonaVersicolor. Good taste wrote wedding songs, songs select children, for visitors, even scrupulous songs. And to crown armed all, he actually wrote abominable ballads as well.