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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

He may be an old bird, but don’t consider this Calypso singer a musical lame duck. More than 50 years after his first song, Slinger Francisco, better known as The Mighty Sparrow, is still flying high.

Harry Belafonte, the actor, activist and singer who popularized the Calypso musical style with his famous song "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)," has died. He was 96. Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive ...

"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 ...