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 ...

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.

Tickets $20 general admission, $15 CAC members, $10 students Women of Calypso Discussion and Workshop 8 p.m. Thursday Free admission Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www.cacno.org The ...

Fast rising in U.S. jukebox popularity this week is a macabre little ditty about a woman’s right to kill a man with a frying pan, since he was “nobody but my husband.” Sung by Ella (A Tisket, a Tasket ...

Harry Belafonte, the Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, actor and activist whose music helped break Caribbean music through to a global audience, and whose humanitarian efforts changed the world, ...

He made calypso music a phenomenon with “Day-O,” received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a Lifetime Achievement Grammy and batted injustice around the world. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor ...

It is hard to imagine the calypso music craze that helped power Belafonte to stardom without Burgie. He performed under the name Lord Burgess and wrote eight of the 11 songs on Belafonte’s blockbuster ...

In a couple of weeks, Armand Hammer and the Alchemist will follow their excellent 2021 album Haram with Mercy, their second ...

Mike Read has asked his record company to withdraw his song in support of UKIP, after receiving complaints that it was racist. The former BBC Radio 1 DJ sings 'UKIP Calypso' in a mock Caribbean accent ...