Hollis Urban Lester Liverpool, better known as Chalkdust or Chalkie (born 1940 in Chaguaramas, Trinidad), is a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago. He has been singing calypso since 1967 and has recorded more than 300 calypsos.

Mar 17, 2025 · Chalkdust is published by Chalkdust Magazine, based in the United Kingdom. ISSN 2059-3805 (Print). ISSN 2059-3813 (Online). A magazine for the mathematically curious. …

Hollis Urban Lester Liverpool, better known as Chalkdust , is a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago. University of Michigan. He has been singing calypso since 1967 and has recorded more than 300 calypsos.

Feb 12, 2025 · Trinidadian calypsonian Dr. Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool, a co-founder of the Sunshine Awards Hall of Fame, was recognized on January 29, 2025, by the Board of Governors of the University of Trinidad and Tobago with the esteemed title of Prof. Emeritus for his “lifelong contribution to education, research, and the performing arts ...

Scoring 439 points with his song “Learn from Arithmetic” ...more. Dr Hollis Liverpool better known as the Chalkdust is the 2017 Calypso Monarch. Liverpool, who is a lecturer at the University of...

Sep 28, 2019 · In 1976, a much younger (and rather virile looking) Chalkdust won the Calypso Monarch for the first time. He composed Ah Put on Meh Guns Again about his internal conflict.

Apr 28, 2023 · Hollis Liverpool, better known as Chalkdust, is a nine-time winner of Trinidad's Calypso Monarch and a renowned calypso artist. In this video, Chalkdust shares stories and...

In addition to being a calypsonian, Chalkdust is a teacher, historian, and writer. In 1979, he published his Education Diploma dissertation "Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago: Its Implications for Education in Secondary Schools."

It was a hu­mor­ous ca­lyp­so but meant to stir the con­science of a na­tion that was ten years in­to in­de­pen­dence and two years away from be­com­ing a re­pub­lic. Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans al­so want­ed T&T to be iden­ti­fied with what the na­tion was known for as op­posed to its colo­nial past.

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