1989 October 2003

BARON REAL NAME: Timothy Watkins, Jr. DATE OF BIRTH: 1947 PLACE OF BIRTH: La Romaine, Trinidad EDUCATION: Rambert EC School San Fernando Technical Institute CAREER:                           While growing up in Bamboo Village, La Romaine, Baron sang Baptist spirituals with his parents at the church they led, and later began singing at various community events. Baron won the Scouting for Talent competition during the early 1970s and made his singing debut at the Original Young Brigade Calypso Tent in 1971, after being introduced to the management by his long-time friend, Lord Shorty, who gave the young calypsonian his trade name, Baron, and wrote his first hit, Severe Licking. Baron then performed in North America for about 13 years before returning to Trinidad in 1984. On February 15, 2022, he was honored when the Timothy Watkins "The Baron'" Street was named after him. Formerly called Bay Road, this street exists at the intersection of the Bamboo Junction and Gulf View Link Road in La Romaine. His calypsoes include: 1971 - Severe Licking 1984 - The Jammer; Feeling It; Priscilla 1985 - Boom Boom; Buss Up Shut; Changes; Do It; Make Love Not War 1986 - Ah Fraid; Doh Rock It So; Jennie; Raja Rani; River of Tears; Soca Baby 1987 - Use Me; Trouble; Soca Espanol; Say Say 1988 - Dance Floor; Soca Man; Melosian Rhapsody 1989 - We Havin' A Party; What About; Somebody 2001 - Fire Down Below; In A Party With My Baby; Peace for the Millennium; Brown Skin Girl 2009 - One More 2011 - Ah Wanna Dance With You Also: Is Christmas; Is Christmas Again; Say Say; Poom Poom Shorts; Boom Boom; This Melody Sweet; Come by Me; Tell Me Why; Neighbour; Jam You; Spanish Woman AWARD: 2016 - Trinidad & Tobago Humming Bird Medal Gold (for Calypso) Compiled by Ronald C. Emrit