Ebenezer Calendar (1912-1985), or Ebenezer Calender, was a

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palm-wine music Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre. It evolved among the Kru people of Liberia and Sierra Leone, who used Portuguese guitars brought by sailors, combining local melodies and rhythms with Trinida ...

ian who popularized Creole

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and palm-wine music in Sierra Leone and West Africa. Calendar heavily influenced Dr Oloh and other

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musicians. Ebenezer Calendar formed the music group, Ebenezer Calendar & His Maringa Band which was popular between the early to middle twentieth centuries.

Early life

Ebenezer Calendar was born in 1912 to a Barbadians, Barbadian or Jamaican father and a Creole mother in

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and he attended local schools and he was a trained a carpenter and coffin maker following the completion of his education.

Music

Calendar formed the group, Ebenezer Calendar & His Maringa Band in the early to middle twentieth century, which popularized Creole styles of gumbe and palm-wine music.

Death

Calendar died in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1985.

References

*http://www.sierra-leone.org/Heroes/heroes10.html *http://sierraleonejournal.org/calender.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Calendar, Ebenezer 1912 births 1985 deaths Sierra Leonean music Sierra Leone Creole people People of Sierra Leone Creole descent Sierra Leonean people of Caribbean descent Sierra Leonean people of Barbadian descent