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Trinidad calypso on the beach in Monaco
At the close of the week of the solstice, Monaco ushered in the summer on a tropical, musical note.

If you read her column, you'll probably know that Monaco Revue's editor Celia Sankar is from Trinidad, and rather proud — make that fiercely proud — of it. So when she got word that calypso, the music from her homeland, would be playing at the beach lounge La Note Bleue, she declared in her Trinidadian slang, "I in that."

Showing just how the world has become a global village, the band turned out to be not from the Caribbean, but from next door in Nice, France, with its leader, King Selewa, a Frenchman who was born in Togo, Africa, where he discovered and fell in love with calypso.

So what did our editor think of King Selewa and His Calypsonians?

"De music sweet too bad," she said.

In case you're wondering, there's nothing negative in that statement. It's just the Trinidadian way of saying the band was very good.



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