To close off three weeks of writing about the local music scene, I am zooming in on a genre that in Guyana at least, seems to have lost its steam.
Calypso, said to be the oldest genre of Caribbean music, and which has been around since the days of slavery, has been taking a licking in Guyana for more than a decade now. And every year, sadly, it gets worse.
Calypso has become so beaten down, it needs to put on life support in intensive care. Unfortunately for calypso though, and for all of us, those in