IN PROFILE
Lord Kitchener, ‘the grand master of calypso’, is best known for his song ‘London Is the Place for Me’, which he was filmed singing on his arrival in England in 1948 on the Empire Windrush. Born Aldwyn Roberts in Trinidad and Tobago, he was orphaned at 14 but went on to have a long and successful career as a calypso star in both Britain, where he lived for 14 years, and his Trinidadian homeland. He died aged 77.