Wilmoth Houdini has been played on NTS in shows including Death Is Not The End, featured first on 18 April 2017. Songs played include Gin & Coconut Water, Bobby Sox Idol and Way Down Sobo.

Wilmoth Houdini (Frederick Wilmoth Hendricks, November 25, 1895, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – August 6, 1977, New York, USA) was a prominent calypsonian.

In 1916 he started his career in earnest when he began working with the African Millionaires, a large carnival group consisting of about 25 members. He arrived in New York sometime around 1927, after working on cargo ships and travelling extensively. Not long after his arrival…