Alston becket cyrus biography

Legendary calypsonian/composer, Alston Becket Cyrus, has fostered an illustrious year career with 21 albums and numerous award-winning.

Legendary soca artiste/composer, Alston BECKET Cyrus, has fostered an illustrious year career with 26 albums, numerous award-winning singles.

Alston BECKET Cyrus, has fostered an illustrious year career with 26 albums, numerous award-winning singles, 1 movie soundtrack, 5 compositions featured in four American TV programs, the sitcom Full House and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno amongst them, and 8 Road March titles, all.

Dr Becket Cyrus 90 years after Victor Layne was Kaiso King of SVG in de 's.

Alston Becket Cyrus, is known to many Vincentians here and abroad as well as the wider Caribbean as “the ABC of Calypso”.

Becket is a soca legend

Legendary calypsonian/composer, Alston ‘Becket’ Cyrus, has fostered an illustrious 30-year career with 21 albums and numerous award-winning singles to his credit. Through his achievements and distinguished musicianship Becket has earned his title as the 'ABC' of calypso/soca.

Born in St.

Vincent, Becket's first love was the steel pan. As a teenager, he realised that he also had a gift for singing and he quickly became popular as a calypsonian. In 1972, while a member of the U.S. Army, Becket decided that he wanted to pursue a singing career and as a result he performed in the successful U.S.

Soldier's Tour-Hawaii 1972-1974. His professional career began in 1975.

In 1977, Becket struck gold with his popular hit “Coming High” and followed with equally successful singles like “Wine Down Kingstown” (1978), “Cocoa” (1980), “Calypso Noel” (1982), “Ooh La La” (