Biography Intro: Rex Jim Lawson known as Cardinal Rex, was a singer, trumpeter and bandleader from Kalabari, Nigeria. He became one of the best-known highlife musicians of the 1960s in Africa when Cardinal and his band dominated Nigeria’s highlife scene.
NAME: Rex Jim Lawson
DATE OF BIRTH: 4 March 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH: Kalabari, Nigeria
OCCUPATION: Singer
