LOVED and encouraged by Uncle Leroy, five-year-old Mikael Calliste (mike in hand), rings out the lyrics with the colour and confidence of Black Stalin himself.

And the San Fernando Boys’ R.C. schoolboy is already a winner: he copped the Infant Calypso Competition at his school with his song, It’s Sad What’s Going on in Trinidad. Nope … Stalin did not write the song; the boy’s grandmother, Gloria Calliste, penned it.