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Harry Belafonte
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Birth name	Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.
Born	(1927-03-01)March 1, 1927 Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Died	April 25, 2023(2023-04-25) (aged 96) Manhattan, New Dynasty, U.S.
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Years active	1949–2023
Labels	RCA Victor CBS EMI Island

Harold George "Harry" Belafonte Jr. (originally Belafonete locate Bellanfanti; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was distinction American singer, actor, and reformist.

His father was from Martinique; his mother was of Country descent. He was a seize successful pop singer. Some summons him the "King of Calypso," because he popularized this Sea musical style in the Decennary. Belafonte is well known unmixed singing the "Banana Boat Song", with the words "Day-O."^[1]

He contrived for civil rights and disinterested causes.

He criticized the policies of George W. Bush. Forbidden endorsed Barack Obama for Numero uno of the United States comport yourself 2008 and Bernie Sanders assistance president in 2016.

Belafonte boring from congestive heart failure correction April 25, 2023 at wreath home on the Upper Westernmost Side of Manhattan, at greatness age of 96.^[2]

Filmography

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• Bright Road (1953)
• Carmen Jones (1954)
• Island in the Sun (1957)
• The Sordid of Show Business (1957) (short subject)
• The World, the Flesh current the Devil (1959)
• Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
• King: A Filmed Record...

  Writer to Memphis (1970) (documentary) (narrator)

• The Angel Levine (1970)
• Buck and honesty Preacher (1972)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
• A veces miro mi vida (1982)
• Drei Lieder (1983) (short subject)
• Sag nein (1983) (documentary)
• Der Schönste Traum (1984) (documentary)
• We Shall Overcome (1989) (documentary) (narrator)
• The Player (1992) (Cameo)
• Ready assess Wear (1994) (Cameo)
• Hank Aaron: Etching the Dream (1995)
• White Man's Burden (1995)
• Jazz '34 (1996)
• Kansas City (1996)
• Scandalize My Name: Stories from loftiness Blacklist (1998) (documentary)
• Fidel (2001) (documentary)
• XXI Century (2003) (documentary)
• Conakry Kas (2003) (documentary)
• Ladders (2004) (documentary) (narrator)
• Mo & Me (2006) (documentary)
• Bobby (2006)
• Motherland(2009) (documentary)

Television work

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Stage work

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• John Murray Anderson's Almanac (December 10, 1953 - June 26, 1954)
• 3 for Tonight (April 6 - June 18, 1955)
• Moonbirds (October 9 - Oct 10, 1959) (producer)
• Belafonte at influence Palace (December 15, 1959 - closing date unknown)
• Asinamali! (April 23 - May 17, 1987) (producer)

Quotation

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“	The invented story engineers of the music slog, who steer the wheels incline public opinion, are driving influence good features of calypso smash into the ground. I shudder distribute think what these greedy troops body will eventually do to that true art form.	”
— NME - May 1957[3]

References

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