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 ...

At Manhattan’s august music house, G. Schirmer Inc., do-it-yourself Calypso Kits (including bongo drums, a gourd and a pair of maracas) were selling briskly last week for $24.50 and up. Columbia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harry Belafonte, the Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, actor and activist whose music helped break Caribbean music through to ...

Harry Belafonte used his time on this earth to produce amazing tunes and fight for what was right. He was a calypso music icon, one with seven Top 10 albums in the US (and 15 Top 40 albums). He ...

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.

Harry Belafonte received a telephone call. It was 1986 or early 1987, and David Geffen was on the other line. He was calling the Jamaican-American singer and activist on behalf of his production house ...

Irving Burgie, a songwriter whose adaptation of the traditional Jamaican folk song "Day-O" became one of the definitive calypso songs of the 20th century, died on Friday. He was 95. Burgie died as a ...

"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 ...

Calypso Rose is living proof that you’re never too old to play Coachella. Rose, 78, made history this year as the music festival’s oldest performer in its history as well as its first calypsonian ...