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He sang work songs, love songs, spirituals, blues, calypsos and, as early as the 1960s, African music.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023

Growing up in Trinidad to a musical family, Etienne Charles was exposed to three song traditions around Christmastime: the singing of church hymns, calypsos and parang, Venezuelan folk songs about the nativity sung in Spanish.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2019

Back at the Botanique we set up our ping-pong net and play and drink while listening to the calypsos of the late Trinidad singing sensation Lord Kitchener.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2013

There's certainly little that Wynton Marsalis would recognise as jazz here – there are no swing rhythms at all for starters, with most of the songs using either straight, unsyncopated rock beats or gentle calypsos.

From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2012

His reward was to hear 70,000 Antiguans sing happy calypsos praising "Papa Bird."

From Time Magazine Archive