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    Harry Belafonte

    1927-03-01 (97 years old) in New York City, New York, USA

    Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. Belafonte is one of the few performers to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), although he won the Oscar in a non-competitive category. He earned his career breakthrough with the album Calypso (1956), which was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)", "Jamaica Farewell", and "Mary's Boy Child". He recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He also starred in films such as Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Buck and the Preacher (1972), and Uptown Saturday Night (1974). He made his final screen appearance in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018). Belafonte considered the actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson a mentor, and he was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations. Belafonte acted as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Belafonte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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    The Greatest Night in Pop
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    Sunday Best
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    Mama Africa
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    Bobby
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    Buck and the Preacher
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    The Angel Levine
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    Harry Belafonte in Concert
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    Odds Against Tomorrow
    67 %|Oct 15, 1959
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    The World, the Flesh and the Devil
    63 %|May 1, 1959
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    Island in the Sun
    65 %|Jun 12, 1957
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    Carmen Jones
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    Bright Road
    63 %|Apr 17, 1953
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    Following Harry
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    Jim Henson Idea Man
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    2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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    The One and Only Dick Gregory
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    70 %|Apr 27, 2018
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    74 %|Dec 25, 2014
    History, Drama
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    48 %|Dec 11, 1961
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    Was bin ich?
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    55 %|Feb 1, 1953
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    65.28999999999999 %|Jun 20, 1948
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    65.28999999999999 %|Jun 20, 1948
    Comedy, Talk