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Article: Louis Farrakhan, Calypso Charmer
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 14, 1995
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She knew him as "The Charmer," and he certainly was that. A lean
and handsome young man, with a hint of island breeze in his patter,
he'd drop by Daisy's desk at the neighborhood newspaper every so
often with a new publicity photo, hoping to plug one of his upcoming
calypso shows.
"Oh, honey, he was gorgeous," remembers Daisy Voigt, who in those
days wrote a teen column under the name Dizzy Dame Daisy. "He was as
fine as new wine. We were all half in love with him. We thought he
was as good as Harry Belafonte."
It was lower Roxbury, Boston, the mid-1950s. Belafonte's Caribbean
sound was breaking big-time, but in the neighborhood, Voigt said, The
Charmer held sway. Everybody also knew him as ...