Looking back over her pioneering career, internationally acclaimed calypsonian Calypso Rose recalls a time in the 1960s, when her critics were singing loudly that the music is a man’s domain. But Rose ...

Migrant workers came from around the world to build Panama's transportation systems. They brought, among other things, music with them. Dozens of bands that came to be known collectively as Combos ...

Irving Burgie, a singer and songwriter who wrote many calypso hits for Harry Belafonte and others, including the 1956 hit “Day-O” (“The Banana Boat Song”), died on Friday, according to the New York ...

Lancelot Victor Pinard, a musician who played a significant role in bringing calypso music to American audiences back in the 1940s, died March 12 of natural causes in Anaheim, Calif. He was 98. Pinard ...

"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 ...

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.

One of the greatest voices that this world was blessed to know was silenced on April 25. Harry Belafonte, a Harlem, New York native who would popularize the Calypso genre of music with songs like “Day ...