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.

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 ...

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 ...

René Marie, a formidable presence, was definitely INTO the genre, as if born to the breed, taking on the style and sound, swaying and sashaying smilingly to the flow and feel, the percolating beats, ...

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 ...