Ash­ton "Tiger" Moore, founder of the As­so­ci­a­tion of British Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans (ABC), the group that pro­motes the art, cul­ture and ethos of ca­lyp­so across the UK and Eu­rope, has died in Lon­don.

Moore mi­grat­ed to Lon­don in 1971 where he formed the Ca­lyp­so Youth Ex­change Pro­gramme, or­gan­is­ing work­shops with chil­dren all over the UK and fa­cil­i­tat­ing vis­its to Lon­don by win­ners of the T&T Ju­nior Monarch ti­tle.

He al­so found­ed the Black His­to­ry Ju­nior Ca­lyp­so Monarch com­pe­ti­tion to en­cour­age chil­dren of Caribbean parent­age to sing about their black he­roes.

"The Mighty Tiger be­came the ca­lyp­son­ian's rep­re­sen­ta­tive on the board of the then Not­ting Hill Car­ni­val Lim­it­ed and held the dis­tinc­tion of be­ing the longest serv­ing mem­ber on that car­ni­val body, al­ways re­main­ing fer­vent about his du­ty to pro­mote car­ni­val and ca­lyp­so in Lon­don and through­out Eu­rope," the ABC said in a state­ment an­nounc­ing his death.

Moore won many awards for his work in the art­form, in­clud­ing the Not­ting Hill Car­ni­val award in 1986, the British As­so­ci­a­tion of Steel­bands award in 2005 and the Roy­al Bor­ough of Kens­ing­ton and Chelsea May­ors award for cul­ture, ca­lyp­so and car­ni­val in 2007.