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.

At Manhattan’s august music house, G. Schirmer Inc., do-it-yourself Calypso Kits (including bongo drums, a gourd and a pair of maracas) were selling briskly last week for $24.50 and up. Columbia ...

Harry Belafonte, the Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, actor and activist whose music helped break Caribbean music through to a global audience, and whose humanitarian efforts changed the world, ...

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 ...

Fast rising in U.S. jukebox popularity this week is a macabre little ditty about a woman’s right to kill a man with a frying pan, since he was “nobody but my husband.” Sung by Ella (A Tisket, a Tasket ...

Veteran Tobagonian calypsonian Gilbert “Happy” O’Connor has turned a week of diplomatic tension into a viral comical ...

Candy Claws, the Colorado dreampop trio who split in 2015, have released their first new song in a decade, which will appear on a new reissue of their 2013 album, Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time.

Mike Read has asked his record company to withdraw his song in support of UKIP, after receiving complaints that it was racist. The former BBC Radio 1 DJ sings 'UKIP Calypso' in a mock Caribbean accent ...