Twelve-year-old Rika Johnson won the calypso competition in the 2016 Antigua Carnival Solemn-faced, schoolgirl Rika Johnson reveals the lyrics to her latest song, an ode to the double-edged sword ...
calypso and dancehall. In the build up to the Carnival, several top Caribbean performers appeared at venues across London. They included soca music stars Machel Montano and Shurwayne Winchester ...
The Carnival season in Trinidad has hardly opened, but already there is calypso controversy. Calypsonian the Mighty Cro Cro has antagonized sections of the Indo-Trinidadian community by urging ...
What to expect First launched as an offshoot of the Trinidad Carnival, the Notting Hill Carnival ... playing everything from reggae, soca and calypso, the traditional music of Trinidad, to R ...
Local music — soca and calypso — play prominent roles in carnival celebrations. The stunning spectacle is further enhanced by the gaudily-dressed locals who are clad in bikini tops and ...
and produced the sounds of soca — the soundtrack of Carnival derived from calypso that combines East Indian and African instrumentation. I’ve been lucky enough to be immersed in these ...