Harry Belafonte

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Birth Name: Harold George Belafonte Jr.

Born: 1 March 1927 Died: 25 April 2023

Country of origin: United States

Height: 6' 2"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Pamela Frank

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JAMAICA FAREWELL ORIGINAL-- HARRY BELAFONTE

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Harry Belafonte - "Banana Boat Song (Day O)" - 1956

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Harry Belafonte was an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Caribbean-American pop star, he popularized Jamaican mento folk songs which was marketed as Trinbagonian Calypso musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.

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"Singer-songwriter and actor Harry Belafonte was the first Black man to win an Emmy Award. He took home the accolade in 1960 for his television special "Tonight With Belafonte." This wasn't his first historic win, however: In 1954, he became the first Black man to win a Tony Award. He earned the honor for his work in the Broadway production of "John Murray Anderson's Almanac." "

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