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Edric Connor (2 August 1913 - 13 October 1968) was a pioneering calypso singer, folklorist and actor who was born in Mayaro, Trinidad in 1913. He migrated in 1944 to the United Kingdom, where he chiefly lived and worked until his death from a stroke in London, England, at the age of 55. In 1951 Connor was responsible for bringing the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra - TASPO - to the Festival of Britain. In 1956, he recorded the first Manchester United Football Club song, "The Manchester United Calypso". That same year, he and his wife Pearl (1924-2005) set up the Edric Connor... MORE

Edric Connor (2 August 1913 - 13 October 1968) was a pioneering calypso singer, folklorist and actor who was born in Mayaro, Trinidad in 1913. He migrated in 1944 to the United Kingdom, where he chiefly lived and worked until his death from a stroke in London, England, at the age of 55. In 1951 Connor was responsible for bringing the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra - TASPO - to the Festival of Britain. In 1956, he recorded the first Manchester United Football Club song, "The Manchester United Calypso". That same year, he and his wife Pearl (1924-2005) set up the Edric Connor Agency, representing black actors, dancers, writers and musicians, which later, in the 1970s, she ran under the name of the Afro-Asian-Caribbean Agency. In 1963 they set up the Negro Theatre Workshop, one of the UK's first black theatre groups. Connor appeared on stage in "Summer Song" at London's Princess Theatre in 1956. In 1958 he became the first black actor to perform for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, playing Gower in Pericles. Connor acted in a total of 18 films and was best noted for his role as Daggoo in Moby Dick (1956). He has a prestigious annual award named after him, "The LESS