Word from the calypso association secretary may have branded Francis with a not too commendatory title. |
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The gazebo of the amphitheatre was the perfect setting for their ethereal fusion of cool jazz and old-time calypso. |
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Gone are the days when the BamBoo Club on Toronto's trendy Queen Street held sole sway over calypso and soca artists. |
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Undoubtedly, the largest single leap in calypso evolution came with the 1973 debut of soca music. |
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Reality is that soca has overtaken the role of calypso rooted in fundamental mid-20th century style. |
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Trinidad has a thriving rock music scene whose best bands blend reggae and calypso with mainstream rock. |
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The calypso, reggae, and steel band music of Trinidad and Jamaica are also very popular. |
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Wherever you go on on this laid-back island, the palm trees sway to the sounds of soca and calypso music. |
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The 31-year-old singer blends the best of Caribbean and South London sounds, including reggae, calypso, jazz and British pop music. |
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Although its roots are similar to those of calypso and reggae, it is more authenticly African. |
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The sound of soft calypso music drifts down from another deck as, below her, waves lap at the side of the ship. |
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The project has formed a band called Raw Energy which fuses reggae, African rhythm, calypso, rhumba and rock. |
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In addition to American and British music, reggae, calypso, and Zairian music are popular. |
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Returning nationals also take the opportunity to renew acquaintances and enjoy the sweet music of calypso and steel pan. |
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This year's music includes sounds of the Caribbean, New Orleans calypso and funk. |
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In fact the instrument is capable of more than calypso and is often used to play jazz and classical music. |
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Last year, it was critically acclaimed as one of the best calypso shows staged. |
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My parents are from St Lucia, so there was a lot of calypso and reggae in the house. |
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One of the dreams I had is that it would inspire the interest of the media and bring about a renaissance of calypso. |
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Citizens had assembled with their coolers and chairs as they revelled to the sounds of soca and calypso from the bands. |
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The project has formed a band which fuses reggae, African rhythm, calypso, rhumba and rock. |
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His charisma bought him a one way ticket to the calypso semi-final and final dozens of times. |
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She's fashioned an album of salsa, calypso, habanera, mambo, meringue and other Caribbean rhythms. |
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Extravagantly costumed masquerade troupes shimmied down the streets as trucks with speakers piled high blasted out calypso and soul. |
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On her latest album, she fuses African root beats with such disparate genres as meringue, salsa, calypso, bolero and ska. |
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They believe more traditional forms such as calypso, reggae and soca are in danger of being overshadowed. |
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The artwork and woodwork are must-haves and the local calypso and soca music featured on the CD's will give you a true taste of St Lucia. |
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The steel drums used in calypso music are made from these 55-gallon containers. |
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The Crop Over festival features costume bands, folk music, and calypso competitions. |
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The opening credits feature a traditional calypso that Americans would recognise as Meet the Boys on the Battle Front. |
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He refuted claims that the station received a letter or request to desist from playing the calypso. |
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For instance, years ago we would have about five top calypso songs with great quality, now we don't get that. |
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We have not a single calypso or chutney song to rally around and no hope of pan on the road. |
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He was awarded the Trinity Cross in 1978, his portrait adorned two postage stamps and six calypso songs were penned to commemorate his triumph. |
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The latest calypso songs can be heard on radios and sound systems throughout the country. |
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The conscious lyrics of the calypso Free Ourselves saw its singer, Patrice Valentine, placing third in the competition. |
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I prefer to depend on the comments of callers who heard the calypso during my morning talk show rather than results from a survey. |
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The only limitation is that no steel band is to play a calypso that the said steel band played before in a Panorama competition. |
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Mark you, sometimes luck intervenes and a good calypso slips through the cracked programming. |
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It is an honest-to-God piece of calypso music, the tempo resolutely upbeat and the mood positively festive after the first couple of tracks. |
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The concierge thrust a rum swizzle at me as the calypso band struck up a bright number. |
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I know long ago, if you have a nice calypso, the whole dance hall would rock to it and fights used to breakout. |
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The former calypso monarch is widely regarded as a superb showman, one of the best at extemporaneous renditions while onstage. |
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Growing up, he listened to the up-tempo sounds of calypso, soca, and zouk, before moving to St Maarten and discovering reggae. |
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While listening to calypso music, many of those being entertained like to dance the limbo, a dance very popular among Grenadian Americans. |
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Some of today's Grenadian American calypso bands also use electric guitars, maracas, and steel drums. |
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Bob's music pieces together elements of jazz, Gypsy swing, calypso and sega as well as the more modern hip hop and ska beats. |
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The mento that graced the first Jamaican recordings of the early 1950s mixed an indigenous folk style with elements of Trinidadian calypso. |
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The song traces calypso history with flawless research and in unexaggerated terms. |
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Surman explores a Sonny Rollins-like calypso on baritone and English-sounding brass fanfares turning into southern-European folk-dances on soprano sax. |
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It also occasionally featured a calypso from Percival himself. |
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Release at least one anthology of calypso and soca hits every year. |
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For the past 34 years, Toronto has played host to Caribana, a dazzling carnival overflowing with pulsating steelband, calypso, and breathtaking costume displays. |
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Each of our songs has its own musical flavour, be it merengue, zouk, calypso or raggaton. |
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The musical style is similar to West Indian calypso and reggae. |
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Elsewhere, the calypso is a link to home, thematically and more subtly. |
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Favorite types of music include calypso, reggae, and religious hymns. |
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The steel pan is our gift to the world as is our calypso music. |
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The postcolonial period has witnessed a significant creolizing of church music, which has been influenced by calypso, reggae, and African American gospel music. |
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The St Joseph's Convent Steel Band bang-started the show with calypso and soca medleys and early arrivals were invited to sample the local dishes on sale. |
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The disc is full of salsa, trip-hop, acid jazz, calypso and reggae beats. |
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His music embraces the traditional sounds of Mali along with American blues, Cuban-influenced grooves, jazz riffs, flamenco, calypso and Arab-influenced vocals. |
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It's easy to perceive the Super Furries as too ambitious for their own good, as they cavort guilelessly from West Coast rock to nosebleed techno, from mariachi to calypso. |
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Even so it is sad that his premature death, from bowel cancer, came when calypso cricket was at such a low ebb. |
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The five to 17-year-olds, who were wearing colourful T-shirts, performed four pieces, including the calypso which was specially commissioned for the event. |
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There was calypso singing, dancing and lots of souse, peas and rice and other Caribbean dishes. |
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There are echoes of hip-hop, reggae, socca, calypso and soul in garage. |
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If anyone, Preddie was in the premier position to comment on calypso. |
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They come here to hear calypso and eat pelau, callaloo, roti and dasheen. |
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Trinidad and Tobago has a vibrant cultural and music heritage, and introduced the world to the rhythms of calypso and steelpan. |
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Recording in the studio with Chucho's quartet, the pair perfected twelve vibrant upbeat tracks alternating between cha-cha-cha, calypso, mambo and Latin jazz. |
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Instead of the usual unpatterned, steady boil of most free-jazz drumming, Mr. Drake pulled off rough roadhouse shuffles, New Orleans two-beats, calypso and funk. |
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This week's far from isolated Robinson Crusoe, who, playing the calypso or any other number of styles, is RR's very own venerably wise veteran sonofwebcore. |
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These heat-saturated, calypso colours bring the islands home. |
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Montserratian popsters Arrow kicked off proceedings with calypso hit Hot Hot Hot. |
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Available in France since 2008 on the No Format label, Mélissa's album captures the singer's distinctive voice, performing acoustic blues, soul, folk and calypso in English, Creole and French. |
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Lavil recruited musicians directly from Trinidad and Tobago to record his new album, infusing each and every track on the album with a lilting calypso beat. |
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More recently, I have started paying more attention to Radio 2, in particular after a calypso show with David Rudder and company in Toronto during Black History Month. |
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That event, featuring calypso singers, steel bands and a Caribbean carnival beauty queen contest, became an annual fixture. |
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Small Caribbean islands are known in very distant countries by people who will never visit them because recordings of their calypso or reggae artists have found an international audience. |
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Importantly, the audience in the calypso tents responds to the calypsonian's insults, criticisms, and jokes, even though the object of his scorn may not be present. |
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It's reassuring to see that not even persistent wintriness can defeat the combined forces of middle England and rampant calypso. |
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That is they have taken some of the traditional songs of the church and have infused indigenous rhythms such a spouge, reggae and calypso. |
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Brukdown is a modern style of Belizean music related to calypso. |
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His style has absorbed early blues, New Orleans jazz and Caribbean calypso and he uses a National steel-body, resophonic guitar and tenor banjo to deliver his songs. |
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The festival includes musical competitions and other traditional activities, and features the majority of the island's homegrown calypso and soca music for the year. |
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While calypso appealed more to the visitors than to the locals, reggae has been embraced by many Bermudians since the 1970s with the influx of Jamaican immigrants. |
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As he recorded it in 1957, the tune had a calypso feel and described a patron telling the barkeep he had to go, to get back to his girl waiting across the sea in Jamaica. |
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