Real name: Neville Marcano

(born March 5, 1916, Diego Martin, Trinidad, died 1993)
Tiger was a promising boxer who became the bantam-weight champion of Trinidad in 1929. He turned to singing calypsoes in 1934 and won the first competition for calypsonians in 1939 with "The Labour Situation in Trinidad." He went on to sing at the Original Old Brigade Tent in the early 1940s. He retired from singing in calypso tents in 1960, but continued to write songs for other singers.