Professor Emeritus at The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Trinidad campus, Gordon Rohlehr, who spent much of his life writing and educating people about calypso music, died on January 29 at the ...

The nom de plume The Mighty Sparrow has proven apt for Slinger Francisco. The singer’s birthplace — Grand Roy, Grenada, a country village better known for crops than calypso — is as unassuming as his ...

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Calypso legend Mighty Sparrow — who mixes Frank Sinatra’s suaveness, R. Kelly’s obsession with sex, Bob Dylan’s social commentary, and 50 Cent’s trash-talking into one Trinidadian whirlwind — is no ...

Calypso music. Brief descriptive notes by E.C. [Emory Cook] on container insert. Lord Melody; Sparrow, (Calypso singer); King Solomon.; Chang-ki-sheik.; King Fighter ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...