The twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago is famous for calypso and soca ... At a sound check for a band that plays old-time instruments, musicians play cuatro, a small, four-stringed acoustic ...

which has its roots in African folk songs, but with a heavy influence from the French, Spanish and British who settled on Trinidad and Tobago. Calypso music was long sung in Patois (a French ...

Now, thanks to a burgeoning battle between Trinidad and Tobago entertainers Machel Montano and Neil “Iwer” George, soca music officially has its first spat of 2019. Trinidad and Tobago's annual ...

A chronology of key events: 1498 - Christopher Columbus visits the islands, naming Trinidad after the three peaks at its south-east corner and Tobago after a local type ... are announced to close the ...