The vintage calypso sounds of M’ba (Gary Thomasos) and Natalie Yorke are back in the international spotlight. Danish record executive Andreas Vingaard has reissued M’ba’s 1982 classics “Master Wong” ...
Don't miss out on the headlines from Lismore. Followed categories will be added to My News. The Bella Fontes celebrate the radiant sounds of this bygone-but-not-forgotten era with a cabaret cocktail ...
The catchy little ditty called Rum & Coca-Cola has been banned by all four major networks, but it is sweeping the U.S. Its sheet-music sales have climbed to a whopping 37,000 a day. Recordings of it ...
Vintage calypso — the beloved Caribbean sounds of the early 20th-century — is alive and well and thriving in Berlin. The seventeen-member strong, multinational, wildly effusive, charmingly quirky Lord ...
Irving Burgie, a songwriter whose adaptation of the traditional Jamaican folk song "Day-O" became one of the definitive calypso songs of the 20th century, died on Friday. He was 95. Burgie died as a ...
US composer Irving Burgie, who helped to popularise Caribbean music with hit songs like Day-O, has died aged 95. His death was confirmed by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, who called for a ...
GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Calypso lyrics decrying corruption and excess have so irked Guyana's government that new songs from the popular Caribbean music genre have been banned from state airwaves.
US composer Irving Burgie, who helped to popularise Caribbean music with hit songs like Day-O, has died aged 95. His death was confirmed by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, who called for a ...
GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Calypso lyrics decrying corruption and excess have so irked Guyana's government that new songs from the popular Caribbean music genre have been banned from state airwaves.
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