The song was only three chords, hammered out to a calypso rhythm by guitar, bass, drums and a cheap organ. It resembled a morse code message to the subconscious brain, an invitation to all sorts of ...

The Mighty Shadow, one of Trinidad and Tobago's most original calypsonians, died on October 23, 2018, just weeks after his 77th birthday. Shadow, whose real name was Winston Bailey, brought poetry to ...

Theron Shaw is well known in local music circles as the go-to man for guitar support ranging from jazz to calypso. His two previous releases signalled a willingness to engage with native cultural ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s been six years since the last instalment in this alternative musical and cultural history of postwar ...