“Music was my refuge,” the renowned author and poet Maya Angelou once said. “I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” While her powerful speaking voice was ...

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 ...

An icon in Caribbean music, a legend within the calypso art form and a powerful force in shaping calypso's up-tempo descendant soca, Winston "Shadow" Bailey died at Mount Hope Hospital, St. Joseph… By ...

"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 ...

When it comes to Calypso music with African soul, Harry Belafonte will reign supreme. The 96-year-old legend passed away on Tuesday of congestive heart failure in Manhattan. Belafonte’s impact in the ...

One common assumption about the demographics of Coachella is that it’s a youth festival, dense with a superficiality that no grown-up, even singer Calypso Rose, could possibly enjoy. While it’s true ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It's not too late to make a musical resolution for 2020, right? No, I'm not planning to spend any diaper money on rare 7-inches, or develop an unhealthy effects pedal habit. But I do need to get ...

An icon in Caribbean music, a legend within the calypso art form and a powerful force in shaping calypso's up-tempo descendant soca, Winston "Shadow" Bailey died at Mount Hope Hospital, St. Joseph… By ...