Trinidad, British island off the northeast coast of South America, is a hot mixture of bloods, French, Spanish, Negro, Carib, Hindu, Chinese. Once a year, on the two days before Lent, Trinidad goes ...

"On the subject of calypso singers of Trinidad he was both knowledgeable and enthusiastic. The culture they sang about was tough, breezy, unsentimental. Vidia had written…'It is only in the calypso ...

Fast rising in U.S. jukebox popularity this week is a macabre little ditty about a woman’s right to kill a man with a frying pan, since he was “nobody but my husband.” Sung by Ella (A Tisket, a Tasket ...

Tickets $20 general admission, $15 CAC members, $10 students Women of Calypso Discussion and Workshop 8 p.m. Thursday Free admission Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www.cacno.org The ...

GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Calypso lyrics decrying corruption and excess have so irked Guyana's government that new songs from the popular Caribbean music genre have been banned from state airwaves.

It is hard to imagine the calypso music craze that helped power Belafonte to stardom without Burgie. He performed under the name Lord Burgess and wrote eight of the 11 songs on Belafonte’s blockbuster ...