• Calypso is the third studio album by recording artist Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM-1248) in 1956. The album became his second consecutive...
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  • Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean...
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  • Look up Calypso, calypso, Calipso, calipso, or kalypso in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Calypso, Calipso, Kalypso, Kalipso, may refer to: Calypso (painter)...
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    RV Calypso is a former British Royal Navy minesweeper converted into a research vessel for the oceanographic researcher Jacques Cousteau, equipped with...
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    1000 songs and recorded more than 20 albums. Considered the "mother of calypso", Rose was the first female calypso star and her lyrics frequently address...
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  • Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time is the third and final studio album by American dream pop band Candy Claws, with lyrics provided by poet Jenn Morea. It...
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  • Jump Up Calypso is an album by Harry Belafonte, originally released by RCA Victor in 1961. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts. Backing...
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  • best album yet" as "he just unloads melody, after melody, after melody". Roseblade remarked that Blowout "isn't a calypso album, but it also is calypso. If...
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    activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first...
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  • Volume 1 is the debut album of the band of Pará Banda Calypso. The album was produced by guitarist and husband of singer Joelma, Chimbinha, and released...
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  • cover versions of previously written songs. The album mostly features songs popularized by early Calypso musicians, as well as songs by Allen Toussaint...
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  • Caribbean is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM-1505) in 1957. It followed his album of calypso music, Calypso (1956), which was...
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    Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) (category Calypso songs)
    influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better known calypso music. It is a call and response work song, from the point of view of dock...
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  • Trinidad and Tobago is best known for its calypso music, soca music, chutney music, and steelpan. Calypso's internationally noted performances in the...
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  • Calypso. It was featured on Denver's 1975 album Windsong. Released as the B-side of "I'm Sorry", "Calypso" received substantial airplay, enabling it...
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    known as Mighty Sparrow, is a Trinidadian calypso vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist. Known as the "Calypso King of the World", he is one of the best-known...
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    languages. In 1957, riding on the popularity of calypso, Angelou recorded her first album, Miss Calypso, which was reissued as a CD in 1996. She appeared...
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  • 2024). "Bryson Tiller Announces Album, Drops off "Calypso"". Hypebeast. Retrieved March 19, 2024. "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry...
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  • Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora) (category Calypso songs)
    pseudonym Raymond Bell on the disc label). It was included on the album Jump Up Calypso. Perhaps its most memorable appearance is in the 1988 Tim Burton...
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    Banda Calypso was a Brazilian brega pop band, with influences of regional rhythms of the state of Pará. The band was formed in Belém, the state capital...
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    Letkemann, "Maya Angelou's Life in Music: Ashford & Simpson Collab, Calypso Album & More (Listen)" Archived September 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine...
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  • Belafonte, including eight of the 11 songs on the Belafonte album Calypso (1956), the first album of any kind to sell one million copies. Burgie also wrote...
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  • Calypso Carnival is a studio album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Records in 1971. This was Belafonte's fifth and final Calypso album. "Don't Stop...
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  • recording studio, the album was the follow-up to Message Man (1977) and fuses styles of Caribbean music like reggae, soca and calypso with other genres,...
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  • Miss Calypso is the debut and only studio album by American writer and poet Maya Angelou, released in 1957. The album was released during a craze for calypso...
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  • pop rock, hip hop, reggae, and calypso. They have released four studio albums. Their first independent studio album, Surf, was released in 2017. Surfaces...
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  • Crooked Calypso is the third studio album by Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott, both formerly members of the Beautiful South. The album was released in the...
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  • 30 June 2023), known professionally as Lord Creator, was a Trinidadian calypso, R&B, ska, and rocksteady musician and singer. Alongside Cuban-born Roland...
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  • 2006 Miss Calypso, Scamp Records, 1957 For the Love of Ivy, ABC Records, 1968 "And So It Goes" (co-written with Roberta Flack for Flack's album Oasis),...
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    musical House of Flowers. She and her fellow cast members recorded calypso albums as "Enid Mosier and her Trinidad Steel Band". She later married one...
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