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Calypso

In Greek legend, a sea nymph; daughter of the Titan Atlas. Homer tells how she waylaid the homeward-bound Odysseus for seven years when he was shipwrecked on the island of Ogygia (probably Malta).

She treated Odysseus hospitably and promised him immortality if he would marry her. They had two sons, but Zeus eventually sent Hermes to command his release. At the hero's departure, Calypso died of grief.

calypso

West Indian satirical ballad with a syncopated beat and repeating melody. Calypso is a traditional song form of Trinidad, a feature of its annual carnival, with roots in West African praise-singing. It was first made popular in the USA by Harry Belafonte (1927– ) in 1956. Mighty Sparrow (1935– ) is Trinidad's best-known calypso singer.



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In 1924, Ashwood returned to New York and began a successful theatrical career, partnering with her old friend Sam Manning, a Trinidadian calypsonian and actor.
Street strollers: grounding the theory of black women intellectuals by Taylor, Ula / Afro-Americans in New York Life and History
Right now, we are working on a campaign for our carnival season 2001 in Trinidad and Tobago with Ronnie Mcintosh, who is a very popular calypsonian in Trinidad and, as a matter of fact, the world over.
The Chronicle INTERVIEW by UN Chronicle
They have it to say how even the calypsonian Mama Choonks hear what happen, and she writing a rapso about it, and boasting that she going to come in Road March Queen again this year, when she bust some style 'pon the crowd with she new tune "Workee in the Parlor.
From 'Midnight Robber' by HOPKINSON, NALO / African American Review
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