Lionel Belasco (Maracaibo (Venezuela) 1881 – c. 24 June 1967) was from Trinidad and Tobago and was a pianist, composer and bandleader, best known for his calypso recordings.
According to various sources, Belasco was born in Maracaibo (Venezuela), the son of an Afro-Caribbean mother and a Sephardic Jewish father.
He was leading his own band by 1902, and made his first phonograph recordings in Trinidad in 1914.
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