Singer Harry Belafonte, the legendary entertainer dies

Harry Belafonte, an American entertainer, and campaigner who was well known, has died at age 96. Harry Belafonte, an actor, singer, and social campaigner from the United States, has died. On Tuesday, April 25, the artist’s press secretary told The New York Times. The reason Belafonte died was because of heart failure. At the age of 96, he died at his home in New York.

Harold George Belafonte was born in New York on March 1, 1927. His parents came from the West Indies. In the 1950s, when the racial division was still common in the US, he rose to the top of show business, which became a turning point in history. With hits like “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” and “Jamaica Farewell,” Belafonte is said to have started the Caribbean music craze almost all by himself.

In 1956, Harry Belafonte album Calypso went straight to the top of the Billboard album chart:

When it came out in 1956, his album Calypso, which had both of these songs, went straight to the top of the Billboard album chart and stayed there for 31 weeks. The first song to sell more than a million copies was Calypso.

Belafonte was also a well-known person in the public eye. In the 1960s, he worked hard to get American artists to back the civil rights movement for people of color in the U.S. and around the world.

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Before him, no one had been able to so clearly reach the top of the musical Olympus:

Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for civil rights in the United States was backed by the charismatic singer and actor who died on April 25 at the age of 96. People think that Belofonte was the first black musician to break down racial barriers in the music business. Before him, no one had been able to so clearly reach the top of the musical Olympus.

He was born in Harlem to Jamaican immigrants. With hits like “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” and “Jamaica Farewell,” he almost single-handedly made Caribbean music popular. These songs were on his album Calypso, which went to the top of the Billboard charts as soon as it came out in 1956 and stayed there for 31 weeks. The album came out just before Elvis Presley made it big, and it was the first record by a single author to sell more than a million copies.

Throughout his work of more than 70 years, Belofonte has always fought for the rights of black people. He has helped Martin Luther King and others in the United States fight for civil rights.

He upset the Bush government in 2002 when he criticized the Iraq War at a press conference in Cuba. What didn’t surprise many people is that Belofonte was always very far to the left politically and ideologically.

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