The Very Beginning

Calypso is a music that's virtually synonymous with the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean...

First Official Calypso Tent

Bamboo is a sacred material for the Calypso art form. Why? Because the first official haven for the...

Golden Age of Calypso

It was the beginning of what might be called Calypso's golden age. The time of the Great Calypso Legends such as...

The U.S.A. Calypso Craze & The First Million Dollar Music of the World

"Calypso became a huge fashion in the States in the ‘50s," recalled Music Publisher/ Producer Jean Michel Gibert, " Thanks to Harry Belafonte, who released...

Legends and Calypso Hall of Fame

The following is a list of Calypso Legends compiled by Calypso Global...

The Art of Extempo

One of calypso's great traditions is extempo, or improvising songs, "and that's taken a couple of different...

Birth of Soca Music

Soca is a outgrowth of Calypso. In the early part of the ‘70s, Calypso fell into a decline with the public. The soul and early disco sounds from the States were...

Rapso

Soca was not the only native outgrowth of calypso. In the late ‘70s came the form known as rapso, a mix of rap and soca, which was started by Lancelot Layne....