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2. List of calypso musicians - Wikipedia

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   (Top) 1 See also. 2 References. ... This is a list of calypso musicians. Bands and artists are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a ...

3. List of calypsos with sociopolitical influences - Wikipedia

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   Calypso music is a worldwide phenomenon. This is a dynamic list of songs and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

4. Calypso music - Wikipedia

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   Calypso in the Caribbean includes a range of genres, including benna in Antigua and Barbuda; mento, a style of Jamaican folk music that greatly influenced ska, the precursor to rocksteady, and reggae; spouge, a style of Barbadian popular music; Dominica cadence-lypso, which mixed calypso with the cadence of Haiti; and soca music, a style of ...

5. Mighty Sparrow - Wikipedia

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   Slinger Francisco [1] ORTT CM OBE (born 9 July 1935), better known as Mighty Sparrow, is a Trinidadian calypso vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist. Known as the "Calypso King of the World", [2] he is one of the best-known and most successful calypsonians.

6. Harry Belafonte - Wikipedia

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   Harry Belafonte (/ ˌ b ɛ l ə ˈ f ɒ n t i / BEL-ə-FON-tee; born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s.

7. Music of Antigua and Barbuda - Wikipedia

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   The music of Antigua and Barbuda is ... The most famous indigenous musician in ... It is clear that the genre of music now called calypso had strong roots in Trinidad ...

8. How a Calypso Anthem Became the Surreal Centerpiece of ... - AOL

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   In 1956, Harry Belafonte topped the charts with “Day-O.” Decades later, his voice became Beetlejuice ’s secret weapon.

9. Lord Kitchener (calypsonian) - Wikipedia

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   For 30 years, he ran his own calypso tent, Calypso Revue, within which he nurtured the talent of many calypsonians. Calypso Rose, David Rudder, Black Stalin and Denyse Plummer are among the many artists who got their start under Kitchener's tutelage. [5] [12] Later he moved towards soca, a related style, and continued recording until his death.