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 ...

2001-04-09 04:00:00 PDT Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago-- Winston "Gypsy" Peters used to strut on a stage, effortlessly tossing a cordless microphone from hand to hand. But these days he sits ...

PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - The black-clad old man crept gingerly onto stage wearing a mournful expression, more funeral director than musical legend. Sign up here. Then Shadow, a Calypso legend, jolts ...

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 calypso music of Trinidad and Tobago is often associated with legendary male singers such as Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) and Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts). Americans may also think of ...

At Manhattan’s august music house, G. Schirmer Inc., do-it-yourself Calypso Kits (including bongo drums, a gourd and a pair of maracas) were selling briskly last week for $24.50 and up. Columbia ...

February 27, 1968, was Carnival Tuesday in Trinidad, and 22-year-old Claude Clement was rushing to join a band of masqueraders gathered in downtown Port of Spain. Led by a group of parading steel pan ...

Most people overlook the gorgeous Caribbean twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago but those who holiday there praise the best sights, spell-binding scenery, marvelous beaches, charming and friendly ...