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 ...

"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 ...

FOR me, Independence is about pride and freedom, the chance to shape our own story as a people!”That patriotic declaration on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rum and Coca-Cola (Wilmoth Houdini and his Royal Calypso Orchestra) --Love, love, love (Lord Beginner) --Nora (Lord Kitchener with Cyril Blake's Calypso Serenaders) --Little Mary had no lamb (The Lion ...