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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harry Belafonte, the Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, actor and activist whose music helped break Caribbean music through to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.