Harry Belafonte-Lets Know 10 Things about singer Harry Belafonte.

Harry Belafonte was a Jamaica American singer,actor and activist,who popularized calypso music with...

international audiences in the 1950s.His breakthrough album Calypsoin 1956 was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.

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He died of congestive heart failure at his home in New York on Tuesday with his wife Pamela by his side,the firm of his longtime spokesperson Ken Sunshine said in a statement.

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As recently as 2018 he made an appearance in the movie "BlacKkKlansman." Portraying an older civil right leader ......

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who recounts the judicial railroading and brutal lynching of Jesse Washington,a Black teenage farmhand,in Waco,Texas,in 1916.

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He was born in New York City borough of Manhattan but spent his early childhood in his family native .....

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Jamaica.Handsome and suave,he came to be Know as the "King of Calypso"early in his career.

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He was the first Black person allowed to perform in many plush nightspots and also had racial ......

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breakthroughs in movies at a time when segregation prevailed in much of the United States.

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Belafonte provided the impetus for "We Are the World,"The 1985 all star musical collaboration that raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

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