Lutalo Masimba of the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians' Organisation

Lutalo Masimba of the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians' Organisation

Lutalo Masimba is the President of the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO). He is also the Vice President of the Copyright Music Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago (COTT), and Vice President of Association Caribbean Copyright Societies as well as a director of the People's Mall Company Limited.

Also known as Brother Resistance, he is a cultural activist and a Rapso artiste of international repute. Best known for his Rapso poetry with the Network Rapso Riddum Band, he has toured the US, Canada, Asia, the Pacific, England and Europe, Venezuela and the Caribbean.

As a cultural activist, researcher and educator, Lutalo Masimba has conducted seminars, workshops and lecture-demonstrations at schools in the Caribbean, North America and Europe. He is the author of Rapso Explosion (Karsa Press UK) a collection of Rapso poetry.

He was awarded the Humming Bird Silver Medal in 1992 for his contribution to the cultural arts and community development.