Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Alexander grew up in London. On leaving school he became a professional musician/songwriter. He spent a year in the USA playing with a 50 – piece band. There he learned to arrange and orchestrate, after which he took a BA in Music at Dartington College, followed by a PGCE at Roehampton.
He has taught music at all levels, including musicianship and composition at Brunel University and lectured on Calypso at the universities of Huddersfield, Leeds, Nottingham, Queen’s University, Belfast and Morley College, London. In 1998 he wrote a one – act calypso opera, “Rumshop” staged at London’s Lyric Theatre. Publications include poems for “Hello New” (pub. 2000, Orchard Books), “Velocity” (pub. 2003, Black Spring Press), a chapter on Calypso for the Arts Council’s Carnival book “On Route” (pub. 2003, X-Press) and a chapter in “Creative Learning, 3-11 and How We Document It” (with Celia Burgess-Macey, pub. 2008, Trentham Books). Professor Tina K. Ramnarine has done an assessment of Alexander’s work in her book“Beautiful Cosmos” (pub. 2007, Pluto Press). He has appeared on TV and Radio in Trinidad, Dominica and the UK. Alex won the UK Calypso Monarch Crown in 2010, 2011 and 2024.