A February 9th letter in Stabroek News `Lyrics of Junior Calypso Monarch were vulgar’ and elsewhere, covering the Junior Calypso Competition, cited some examples of “vulgarity” in one of the songs. In ...

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.

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 of ...

Calypso and soca are both genres of music that originated in our twin-island nation, but they have distinct characteristics: • Calypso emerged during the colonial period. Its roots have been ...

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.