Published 14 July 2021
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Trinidad & Tobago News
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips
The calypso fraternity has been plunged into mourning yet again with the passing of Brother Resistance.
The rapso pioneer and President of the Trinbago Unified Calypsonian’s Organisation (TUCO) passed away on Tuesday night.
He passed away at the Westshore Medical Private hospital.
He was said to be ailing for some time.
Known for songs such as “Ring the Bell” , “Mother Earth” and “Cyah Take Dat”, Resistance was the co-founder and lead singer of the Network Riddim Band.
The band sang and popularised rapso music, originated by the late Lancelot Layne.
Resistance, who changed his name from Roy Lewis to Lutalo Masimba, was born in East Dry River, Port-of-Spain in 1954.
A former student of the Queen’s Royal College, he was inducted into the school’s Hall of Honour in 2017.
His son, Soy Kwame Jones Jr, told Loop that while the public knew him as a strong solid figure musically, he was always a bridge for most people around him to pass over for better.
“He was like one of the old bamboo bridges in a village that was working and mother nature decided to break it down and build a new concrete bridge. We lost the bamboo bridge. It is a tough one, he wasn’t owned only by his children,” he told Loop News.
He said details of the funeral will be finalised today.
