Music is the heart and soul of these twin islands, and nowhere is this more evident than in the genres of soca and calypso.

The Carnival season in Trinidad has hardly opened, but already there is calypso controversy. Calypsonian the Mighty Cro Cro has antagonized sections of the Indo-Trinidadian community by urging ...

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Calypso music was born hundreds of years ago in the ... and are discouraged from overly political lyrics. "The older calypsonians say people might think we've been influenced by our parents ...

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What is Caribbean music? - GCSE Music Brush up on the Calypso music of Trinidad and Tobago. The fabulous history of drag From the Shakespearean stage to serving up runway realness. Five unusual ...

In the world of music, lineage can either open doors or weigh you down. For rapper Red So Dread (Daniel Joseph), son of soca ...

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As a new LP is released, those who knew them explain how they changed the shape of music forever. Gang of Four's 1979 LP Entertainment! made shockwaves. 45 years on, it still speaks powerfully to ...

Trinidad and Tobago relies on its energy sector for much of its economic activity, and has one of the highest per capita incomes in Latin America. Economic growth between 2000 and 2007 averaged ...

October 18, 2024 • NPR Music's Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to this week's most compelling new musical offerings. For October 18, their selections include an array of ambitious ...