“Music was my refuge,” the renowned author and poet Maya Angelou once said. “I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” While her powerful speaking voice was ...

Lancelot Victor Pinard, who under the name Sir Lancelot was a significant figure in introducing calypso music to American audiences, died March 12 in Anaheim. He was 98. Accompanying himself on guitar ...

Two weeks prior to her 79th birthday, Calypso Rose -- who has broken down barriers for women in calypso, soca and other Caribbean genres throughout her 64-year trailblazing career - will once again… ...

Alston Becket Cyrus's lilting tribute to one of the greatest cricketers comes easily in the Caribbean where calypso, written with passion and sung with verve, is inextricably linked to the game. If ...

"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 ...

An icon in Caribbean music, a legend within the calypso art form and a powerful force in shaping calypso's up-tempo descendant soca, Winston "Shadow" Bailey died at Mount Hope Hospital, St. Joseph… By ...

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 ...

Its bouncy beats and tuneful melodies often serve up serious, even subversive, messages. The music demands more careful listening, writes Benjamin Ramm. Outside the Caribbean, calypso music is ...

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 ...