Jeers and cheers for Gypsy

Former UNC Senator Winston “Gypsy” Peters came on stage to a mixture of jeers and cheers when he performed at the opening night of House of Stars Calypso Tent last Friday night. But after singing his first song “Maximum” Gypsy had the entire audience clapping and asking for more.

He did not sing more of that song but went on to do another called “Every Shadow Is A Gunman” (Paradise Lost) but not before saying he will never sing a song that encourages kidnapping. After this second song Gypsy got an encore, on his return to the stage he extempored a verse in which he told the audience, “If I was not UNC all you would not jeer at me. But don’t judge me by my politics, judge me by my calypso; this is calypso time.”  He then left the stage to tremendous applause. Also making a great impact was Cardinal with his version of the stolen liquor from the police canteen. Dressed in “police uniform” Cardinal delivered “From The Horse’s Mouth” to an appreciative audience.

House of Stars has a cast consisting of a mixture of youth and experience with Olatungi Yearwood “Walk Good”, Patrice Roberts “Determine”, Luta “Perfect Vision”, Singing Sonia and “Ah Not Singing Dat”. Stalin’s two songs are tributes to Jit Samaroo and Andre Tanker, Singing Francine needs to do more rehearsals with the band and Calypso Rose was just being herself with a great performance. The calypso King of the World, Sparrow ended the show with an emotional song “Isaac and Ishmael.”