Hip-hop isn't the only cultural movement celebrating its golden anniversary this year; soca, the up-tempo, propulsive descendant of calypso created in Trinidad and embraced across the Caribbean ...
October 2018 is Calypso History Month, a tradition started by the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) in 2002 as a way to celebrate the role calypso has played in the ...
Scrunter (Irwin Reyes Johnson) is as much renowned for his cooking as he is for his music. This much beloved calypsonian has been chosen to be one of the featured artistes in the Calypso Icons of ...
This article was corrected on Oct. 29, 2003. U.S.-produced docu “Calypso Dreams” provides a lively overview of a musical form that is the prevailing popular sound of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as ...
Two-time calypso monarch Cleade “Hurricane” Jean-Jacques has won Dominica’s calypso competition for the third time after defeating nine competitors at Saturday night’s soca contest in Roseau. He won ...
Born in Barbados on February 13, 1943 Edwards came to T&T at a young age. “When asked how she began singing calypso, she responded, ‘I never became involved in the calypso art form. I was born into ...
This documentary from filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn explores the history of calypso music in Trinidad and Tobago. Featuring performances by such seminal acts as Mighty Sparrow, Calypso Rose, Lord Superior, ...
One radio station polled its audience on the debacle that was the 2020 National Calypso Monarch competition. The station wanted to know whether the calypso finals should go back to the Dimanche Gras.
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