You can not be a traditional calypsonian. You can learn their music, sing it, enjoy it, but like they say in Maine, a cat can have kittens in the oven but it don't mean they're biscuits. Like others have said, sing in your own voice, however it comes out, bow to the masters of the tradition as well as the unknown tradition keepers...keep up your studies, do songs that are age appropriate, and you are probably getting into a genre that can be risque, so don't sing anything that would embarrass your family, at least until you are of age...travel to the source as soon and as often as you can..perhaps if you are in college yet you can consider a semester at sea type of thing..or foreign exchange..you are too young to travel alone so go with a group..

There are lots of cruises to the Caribbean...if you are working or have a summer off maybe you could get a job on one...mg