One of Calypso Rose's earliest call outs took place in 1955, when her 15-year-old self penned the minor hit "Glasses Thief" after witnessing a man stealing a woman’s glasses. As her website states, it is the first calypso [song] denouncing inequality between the sexes. "All I went through opened the door for the female calypsonians because I was the only woman in it for years," she said in an interview with Billboard.