Harry Belafonte
Singer
Basic Information
- Occupation
Singer
- Date of birth
01 March 1927
- Citizenship (s)
United States of America
Biography
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.) is an American singer, songwriter, activist, and actor. One of the most successful Jamaican-American pop stars, as he popularised the Trinbagonian Caribbean 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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