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 ...
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 ...
Calypso History Month is almost at its end, but the celebration continues across the globe as the music industry wisens up to the historical fact that we started it all right here in Trinidad and ...
In honour of Trinidad and Tobago's Calypso History Month, the Global Voices Caribbean team put together a (non-comprehensive) list of songs whose lyrics empower women. The post drew a lot of attention ...
"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 ...
The trumpets blared, the drums picked up the pulse-bumping, syncopated calypso beat, and the towering man in the red silk pants pranced out on the stage, his great eyes wide, his mouth an elongated O ...
CALYPSO, the unique art form that defined Trinidad and Tobago for a hundred years, that clever, creative combination of lyrics with rhyme and melody to haunt the living and awaken the dead, is dead.
Calypso Rose helped introduce the world to calypso over 50 years ago, and this year, the 76 year-old Tobagan returned to the genre with Far From Home. "Leave Me Alone" is a lively song about enjoying ...
In 1956, calypso battled it out with rock ’n’ roll to become America’s hottest musical craze. As the year ended, newspaper reports quoted pundits predicting it would wipe Elvis and his like out. One ...
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