The striking vocalist Brother Resistance, who died this month, started a politically powerful hybrid of hip-hop and soca that opened new possibilities in Caribbean music You would expect a song called ...

Rapso music got its turn in the spotlight Tuesday night when the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians' Organisation (TUCO) in collaboration with the Network Communication Organisation and Nalis staged the ...

Rapso is more than a locally developed form of music, it is a major element of the psyche of the African people who came to T&T through the slave trade. So said Brother Resistance, talking about the ...

The weapon of choice for the region’s cultural revolutionaries, ‘Rapso’ flies in the face of those all too eager to proclaim the oral tradition dead. ‘Rapso’ is the name given to the unique blend of ...

To Trinidad and Tobago, Brother Resistance was much more than an artistic icon; he was a fount of cultural knowledge. With his passing at a private hospital on July 13 (he had been ailing for some ...

"It's a long, long time now we fighting for freedom […] I come with my bell just to second the motion, rock the rapso riddum.” ...