For all the talk about calypso being in decline, it remains one of the few Trinidad and Tobago art forms that still speaks ...

The UK Independence Party have released a calypso-style song, written and recorded by former-BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read. The song, titled Ukip Calypso, features Read singing in a mock-Caribbean accent ...

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 ...

Irving Burgie, a songwriter whose adaptation of the traditional Jamaican folk song "Day-O" became one of the definitive calypso songs of the 20th century, died on Friday. He was 95. Burgie died as a ...

GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Calypso lyrics decrying corruption and excess have so irked Guyana's government that new songs from the popular Caribbean music genre have been banned from state airwaves.

Irving Burgie, a songwriter whose adaptation of the traditional Jamaican folk song "Day-O" became one of the definitive calypso songs of the 20th Century, died on Friday. He was 95. Burgie died as a ...