But it didn’t pan out. In May 1957, a banner headline in Variety screamed that “Calypso is Stone Dead”. By the year’s end, the calypso fad went the way of all fads. The Trinidad-born music did not go ...

One common assumption about the demographics of Coachella is that it’s a youth festival, dense with a superficiality that no grown-up, even singer Calypso Rose, could possibly enjoy. While it’s true ...

"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 ...

London producer Tourist has put a nearly-calypso, dance music spin on sister trio HAIM’s driving “The Wire.” The remix will be part of Amazon’s UK deluxe edition of the band’s upcoming LP Days Are ...

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Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Tobagonian singer Calypso Rose has enjoyed ...

The temperature was hot, the food spicy and the dancing had a calypso flair at the second annual Treasure Coast Jerk Festival at the Port St. Lucie Civic Center. And like the Caribbean American ...

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.