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… ...

We pick 10 of the best recordings by the late singer, who became famous for popularising calypso but whose artistry couldn’t be hemmed in by genre The musical story of Harry Belafonte is really a ...

(Trinidad Express) In what is a major breakthrough towards the recognition of both calypso and soca as genres in the international music market, US-based iTunes Music Store, a division of Apple Inc, ...

Calypso is a West Indian phenomenon, a genre that started somewhere around the beginning of the 1900s and ran forward through the decades, eventually jumping to the top of the US charts in 1944 when ...

Calypso and soca are both genres of music that originated in our twin-island nation, but they have distinct characteristics: • Calypso emerged during the colonial period. Its roots have been ...

It is difficult to believe that the shy, soft-spoken Niossi Alsopp who sat down with The Scene this week, is the same one who took stormed the stage and won the Junior Calypso Monarchy with her ...