Harry Belafonte, the Grammy-, Emmy-, Tony-, and honorary Oscar-winning entertainer whose 1956 hit "Banana Boat (Day-O)" brought calypso music into the mainstream, died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan ...

Harry Belafonte has died at the age of 96. Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side, said Paula M. Witt, of public relations firm Sunshine ...

Singer, actor, producer and activist Harry Belafonte, who spawned a calypso craze in the U.S. with his music and blazed new trails for African American performers, died Tuesday of congestive heart ...

Actors, musicians, activists, politicians and more took to social media to pay tribute to the revolutionary singer, activist and actor who died on Tuesday in Manhattan at 96. By Abbey White Associate ...

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 ...

Harry Belafonte was married three times and welcomed four children before his death on April 25, 2023 Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She ...

Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice is a cult classic and a Halloween staple. But the creepy film would be nothing without the songs of Harry Belafonte, the “King of Calypso.” Before their untimely deaths, what ...

Prolific artist and fearless civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte never minced words when it came to challenging perceptions of race, social justice and pushing humanity to “make the world a little ...

He made calypso music a phenomenon with “Day-O,” received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a Lifetime Achievement Grammy and batted injustice around the world. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor ...

“The most powerful weapon that we have in the universe is the weapon of art,” Harry Belafonte told a social-activist teen theater troupe in Harlem in 2014. Like few other stars, Belafonte leveraged ...

Belafonte was also an activist during the Civil Rights Movement. Harry Belafonte, the actor, activist and singer who popularized the Calypso musical style with his famous song "Day-O (The Banana Boat ...

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