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Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 26 episodes and was first played on 20 October 2014.

Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr. in Harlem, NYC, on 1 March 1927; died 25 April 2023) 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, released in 1956, was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.

Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O". Throughout his career, he was an advocate for civil rights and humanitarian causes.

Belafonte won three Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards and in 2022 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category and was the oldest living person to have received the honor.

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Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 26 episodes and was first played on 20 October 2014.

Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr. in Harlem, NYC, on 1 March 1927; died 25 April 2023) 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, released in 1956, was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.

Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O". Throughout his career, he was an advocate for civil rights and humanitarian causes.

Belafonte won three Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards and in 2022 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category and was the oldest living person to have received the honor.

http://singyoursongthemovie.com

Original source: Last.fm

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Day-O
Harry Belafonte
Geffen Records1988
Jump In The Line
Harry Belafonte
RCA Victor1961
Banana Boat Song
Harry Belafonte
World Star Collection1988
Day-O (Banana Boat)
Harry Belafonte
International Joker Production, Joker1981
Angelina
Harry Belafonte
RCA Victor1961
Jump In The Line
Harry Belefonte
RCA Special Products, BMG Direct Marketing1992
Don'T Stop The Carnival
Harry Belafonte
RCA1986
Coconut Woman
Harry Belafonte
Maybellene1987
Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
Harry Belafonte
RCA0
I Never Will Marry
Harry Belafonte
RCA Victor1959