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 ...

This recent Soul Jazz comp explores calypso's roots as party music that doubled as a delivery system for current events, street wisdom, social humor, and reflections on daily life. Save this story ...

For decades, music promoter Isaac McLeod was associated with great Caribbean music. And more than a year after his death, the tradition continues. Calypso performers David Rudder, Shadow, Baron, Sugar ...

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 ...

The local premiere of Queen of The Road: The Calyp­so Rose Musical (QOTR), a captivating production celebrating the life and legacy of a true icon, the legen­dary Calypso Rose, will launch with a gala ...

“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 ...

Women ruled the the opening hours of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Friday including a self-assured set from 20-year-old singer-songwriter King Princess, this year’s Grammy star Kacey ...

Caribbean calypso and soca star Alphonsus Cassell, who performed under the professional name Arrow, died Sept. 15 from brain cancer complications on the island of Montserrat. He was 60. Arrow was best ...

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 ...

Fast rising in U.S. jukebox popularity this week is a macabre little ditty about a woman’s right to kill a man with a frying pan, since he was “nobody but my husband.” Sung by Ella (A Tisket, a Tasket ...