But it didn’t pan out. In May 1957, a banner headline in Variety screamed that “Calypso is Stone Dead”. By the year’s end, the calypso fad went the way of all fads. The Trinidad-born music did not go ...

After half a century of service, first as a minesweeper during the war, then as the Gozo ferry boat and most famously as Jacques Cousteau's research vessel for 46 years, the Calypso is now being ...

Before Harry Belafonte was a superstar, known as the "King of Calypso" for his smash hits in the 1950s and for funneling his wealth into support for the civil rights movement, he was a World War II ...

Miriam Bassett-Tucker was one of the island’s best-known calypso dancers in the 1950s. Today, few of the younger generation know her name. Atlantic Publishing House is looking to change that. She’s ...

Much has been made of the so-called “Calypso Craze” that came to an apotheosis in the mid-1950s with the release of both Harry Belafonte's album Calypso (the first platinum LP ever recorded) and the ...

SKA is Jamaican music from the 1950s. Combining calypso and rhythm and blues, it was a precursor to rocksteady and what is now called reggae. SKA is Jamaican music from the 1950s. Combining calypso ...