Emile Straker

Sir Charles Emile Straker was a Barbadian musician and songwriter and a onetime lead singer of the Calypso group, The Merrymen. In 2000, Straker was one of 100 Barbadians awarded a Barbados Centennial Honour. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year's Honours and, in 2019, he was made a Knight of the Order of St Andrew. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_S...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)