She hopes to one day become prime minister. Calypso music was born hundreds of years ago in the sugar plantation fields of the Caribbean among slaves forbidden from speaking to each other as a ...

Calypso is a type of music and dance from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. Calypso began in the 19th Century and was influenced by French and African people. It became very popular in the ...

Many of the styles you listen to today have roots in Caribbean London. The fusion of Jamaican reggae into British music developed genres such as drum and bass and dubstep. Soca (Soul of Calypso ...

calypso and salsa to tambú, méringue and soca. Its multidisciplinary, thematic approach reveals how the music was shaped by strategies of resistance and accommodation during the colonial past and how ...

US composer Irving Burgie, who helped to popularise Caribbean music with hit songs ... known for helping singer Harry Belafonte bring calypso music to the mainstream. The 1950s song Day-O went ...