SHE overcame a speech impediment, blazed a trail for generations of female calypsonians, and, to date, is the only artiste from the Caribbean to receive the French Grammy award.
Calypso Rose accepted the Victoire de la Musique award for the World Music Album of the Year in Zenith, Paris, in 2017. The award is considered the "French Grammys."
“No other artiste of the Caribbean has ever received the French Grammy,” the calypso icon, 84, declared in an interview at the Hochoy Charles Administrative Complex, Tobago, on October 28.
The interview, hosted by the Department of Information, Office of the Chief Secretary, came on the heels of a simple function in Scarborough on October 25, at which the THA honoured Rose and seven other Tobago icons. Milford Road in Scarborough has been renamed Calypso Rose Boulevard.
The interview, which took place before a live audience, revisited salient aspects of the calypso legend’s life: the struggles she encountered as a young woman in a male-dominated artform; her globetrotting career; and, most recently, attending her first carnival in the land of her birth. Read More
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