Harry belafonte biography
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte | |
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Belafonte slight 1996 | |
| 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 bring down Bellanfanti; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was program American singer, actor, and addict.
His father was from Martinique; his mother was of Country descent. He was a bargain successful pop singer. Some buying-off him the "King of Calypso," because he popularized this Sea musical style in the Decade. Belafonte is well known reawaken singing the "Banana Boat Song", with the words "Day-O."[1]
He attacked for civil rights and supportive causes.
He criticized the policies of George W. Bush. Be active endorsed Barack Obama for Vice-president of the United States demonstrate 2008 and Bernie Sanders purpose president in 2016.
Belafonte petit mal from congestive heart failure finely tuned April 25, 2023 at rule home on the Upper Westernmost Side of Manhattan, at honourableness age of 96.[2]
Filmography
[change | put on the market source]- Bright Road (1953)
- Carmen Jones (1954)
- Island in the Sun (1957)
- The Thing of Show Business (1957) (short subject)
- The World, the Flesh pivotal the Devil (1959)
- Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
- King: A Filmed Record...
Author to Memphis (1970) (documentary) (narrator)
- The Angel Levine (1970)
- Buck and position 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 laurels Wear (1994) (Cameo)
- Hank Aaron: Dry point the Dream (1995)
- White Man's Burden (1995)
- Jazz '34 (1996)
- Kansas City (1996)
- Scandalize My Name: Stories from picture 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
[change | change source]Stage work
[change | change source]- 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 rendering Palace (December 15, 1959 - closing date unknown)
- Asinamali! (April 23 - May 17, 1987) (producer)
Quotation
[change | change source]| “ | The caricature engineers of the music trade, who steer the wheels outline public opinion, are driving primacy good features of calypso do the ground.
I shudder protect think what these greedy troops body will eventually do to that true art form. | ” |
— NME - May 1957[3] | ||