How to Use calypso in a Sentence

calypso

noun
  • Franklin kneels to show the tiny face of a calypso orchid, just then coming into bloom.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 18 July 2021
  • From its feel-good melody to its lyrics full of fresh air and freedom, the lilting, calypso-esque dance beat is a whole vibe.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Marimbas and steel drums of a jaunty calypso soundtrack piped in at intervals.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • Come for the live calypso and reggae music and local DJs, and stay for the delicious free food!
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • Scents of jazz, blues, Dixieland, boogie-woogie, soft-shoe, calypso, rag and rumba waft by in catchy new arrangements.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The band plays a mixture of reggae, soca/calypso, beach music and their own originals, officials said.
    — Beacon-News Staff, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2023
  • Ska developed first in the 1950s combining mento, calypso, jazz and rhythm and blues.
    — Nacey Watson Johnson, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2023
  • And a little bit of Reggae, calypso, Bulgarian folk music.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 8 May 2026
  • The festival begins with the village opening and quickly builds momentum as calypso singers perform witty, often satirical, songs about local life.
    — AFAR Media, 22 May 2025
  • Taxis are also available to take passengers to the top—which is a good idea on Sundays, when a lively BBQ set to the sounds of live music like calypso occurs.
    — Kristin Braswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Each rhyme showcases a different musical genre, such as Dixieland jazz, calypso, funk, chamber, Celtic and folk, with dance including circle, partner and line.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Each rhyme showcases a different musical genre, such as Dixieland jazz, calypso, funk, chamber, Celtic and folk, with dance including circle, partner and line.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Their music blends flamenco, Middle Eastern, salsa, calypso, Brazilian and other rhythms.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The lilting peals of calypso steel pans, driving reggae beats, and pulsing hip-hop fill the city streets, and Canadian-Caribbean households ready extra bedrooms for relatives from far and wide.
    — Heather Greenwood Davis, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2021
  • The singer-songwriter-producer specializes in the forró, piseiro and axé, an Afro-Caribbean fusion of marcha, calypso and reggae.
    — Billboard, 22 Sep. 2021
  • But Jamaica’s indigenous calypso and mento would supply crucial material for his early musical repertoire.
    — Chris Morris, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The figurehead in popularizing calypso in America in the mid-‘50s, Belafonte became the first artist to sell a million copies of a full-length album.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Jamaica's Carnival celebrations are some of the biggest and most boisterous in the Caribbean, complete with parades, parties, and over-the-top costumes made for getting down to calypso and soca music.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Nevertheless, this is the most forward-looking of the late jazz musician’s works, full of undeniable momentum and contagious exuberance as branch and her ensemble meld folk, calypso, dub, and punk into fervent, free-flowing jazz.
    — Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Black actors such as Theresa Harris and the calypso singer Sir Lancelot have extraordinarily memorable moments of subversive power.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
  • While Trinidad and Tobago may be best known for their Carnival celebrations, Jamaica's version is a colorful blur of music, dance, and food, a non-stop party powered by soca and calypso beats.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 26 Dec. 2023
  • While Trinidad and Tobago may be well known for their Carnival celebrations, Jamaica's version is a colorful blur of music, dance, and food, a non-stop party powered by soca and calypso beats.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Also in 1955, Rollins became a member of the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, his trademark a caustic, often playful style of melodic invention with a range of musical styles from ballads to calypso that spotlighted his gift for thematic improvisation.
    — Roy Trakin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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