Kid Creole and the Coconuts is a band who introduced Latin, Calypso and Jive Fusion to a brand-new audience, crossing genres and breaking boundaries throughout their always uplifting releases.

When that group broke up, Darnell fronted his own group, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, which released eight terrific albums between 1980 and 1991. Here was dance music, steeped in retro-Latin ...

Kid Creole and the Coconuts have revealed that they will be hitting the road in the UK for a final time before retirement on the Bye Bye Birdy Tour this summer.

New York's Kid Creole and the Coconuts were certainly a unique early '80s proposition: a Cab Calloway-esque, zoot-suited dandy leading a crack contingent, creating future-now, street-savvy-yet ...

It is perhaps fitting that Kid Creole and the Coconuts star August Darnell has chosen to begin his farewell tour in Britain, as it is a place he called home for many years. Although born and ...