This is not the glossy, occasionally dross calypso that entertains tourists or wins Calypso King competitions. It is more rustic in flavor, speaks more to non-urban audiences and is accompanied only...
Porter,Hubert & Jamaican Calypsonians Calypsos From Jamaica CD1. Names of Funny Places 2. Millie 3. Not Me 4. Rum and Coconut Water 5. Miss Daisy 6. Old Lady 7. Miss Goosie 8. Ugly Woman 9...
I didn't go to a Music School, it's just an in-born talent. I experience and learnt the hardest way," says Jamaican vocalist Horace Johnson. You'll recognize Belafonte's "Island in the Sun" and...
The first mention of calypso comes from a dance described by Abbe Masse in 1882. Otherwise, most scholars who have tried to trace the story of calypso agree that the word itself is not connected with...