In the Caribbean, calypsonians and their musical offerings are typically associated with Carnival, but Barbados-born, Trinidad and Tobago-raised Francine Edwards managed to successfully cross over ...

The Antigua and Barbuda Festivals Commission (ABFC) has announced the sixteen (16) calypsonians who will compete in the much-anticipated 44th Independence Calypso Competition. On Thursday, October 16, ...

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 ...

TORTOLA — Ruben “King Henry” Henry did not make a trip to Trinidad, but with good reason. Henry, a musician who has lived in the British Virgin Islands for the last 30 years, was planning a trip last ...

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 ...

"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 dead? Not quite. Calypsonians and calypso shows being lazy and unoriginal? We have plenty of that. The Eternal Pantomime explains. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...

That patriotic declaration on today’s 63rd Independence Day reflects the gravitas calypsonian Stacey Sobers places on carrying on the oral traditions of Trinidad and Tobago. Sobers has selected Rhythm ...