{"id":3448,"date":"2022-09-05T20:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sensorialsunsets.com\/calypso-in-costa-rica\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T20:01:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:01:04","slug":"calypso-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sensorialsunsets.com\/en\/calypso-in-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Calypso in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Celebration of the Fiesta de la M\u00fasica on June 21: history of Calypso in Costa Rica<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Origins<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On this day of the Fiesta de la M\u00fasica (Music Day), we remember the Caribbean region of Costa Rica. One of the musical genres that has had the greatest boom in that area is Calypso.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#13;\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#13;\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originally from the Antilles (Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, Saint Kitts), Calypso arrived to the Costa Rican Caribbean coast in 1870, when Antillean immigrants arrived in Costa Rica. Since then, this genre was mixed with son Cubano, reggae, ska, salsa and even cumbia to form what is known as Calypso Limonense.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#13;\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#13;\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was declared as an outstanding expression of Costa Rica&#8217;s Afro-descendant intangible heritage in December 2012 under Executive Decree n. 37418-C.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sensorialsunsets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/thumb_dibujo2_0.jpg\" alt=\"robert-kirlew-calypso-costa-rica-sensorial-sunsets\" class=\"wp-image-2312\" width=\"496\" height=\"381\"\/><figcaption>Robert Kirlew &#8211; photo: Si Cultura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Great Exponents of Calypso in Costa Rica<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It deals with social issues of the area in a humorous way. The great representatives of this genre, music legends, are Walter Ferguson and Roberto Kirlew.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kirlew was born in 1952 in Lim\u00f3n and is the founder of the group &#8220;Buda y su Charanga&#8221;. He has won competitions of the Costa Rican Ministry of Culture with his band.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ferguson is considered the greatest exponent of this music and is called the &#8220;King calypsonian&#8221;. He was born in 1919 in Cahuita and composed great hits such as &#8220;Cabin in the w\u00e1ter&#8221;. He was recognized with the National Calypso Day in honor of his birth date, by the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#13;\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author: M. Barrantes for Sensorial Sunsets<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>References<\/b><\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/si.cultura.cr\/es\/manifestaciones-culturales\/historia-del-calypso-limonense\">https:\/\/si.cultura.cr\/es\/manifestaciones-culturales\/historia-del-calypso-limonense<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Ferguson\">https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Ferguson<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebration of the Fiesta de la M\u00fasica on June 21: history of Calypso in Costa Rica Origins On this day of the Fiesta de la M\u00fasica (Music Day), we remember the Caribbean region of Costa Rica. 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