Singer and comedian Harry Belafonte dies at 96

Singer and actor Harry Belafonte has died

“Calypso King” and committed artist, Harry Belafonte passed away on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at the age of 96, his agent revealed toAFP extension. Famous for the title Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)where viewers listen cockroach juicebut also for the pieces Skip the line, Matilda, island in the sun OR Try to rememberthe singer gave in “heart failure in his New York home”while he was alongside his girlfriend Pamela.

Born in Harlem on March 1, 1927, Harry Belafonte grew up partly in Jamaica, where he discovered calypso. A musical style that made him famous. In 1956, his album titled him Calypso East the first in history to sell over a million copies. He also has a career as an actor. He staged several plays with his friend Sidney Poitier and made his film debut in 1953 in Bright street by Gerald Mayer.

Harry Belafonte then veers under the direction of Otto Preminger (carmen jones), by Robert Rossen (An island in the sun), by Robert Wise (The kick of the stairs) but also Sidney Poitier, with whom he shares the western poster Buck and his accomplice. In 2006, she gave the answer to Anthony Hopkins in the drama Bobby by Emilio Estevez, before playing his last role in 2018 in BlacKkKlansman: I have infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan by Spike Lee.

A staunch civil rights activist

Like Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte is a civil rights activist. He also fought apartheid in South Africa and opposed George W. Bush and the 2006 war in Iraq. In 1964, while carrying money with the star of In the heat of the night for Freedom Summer, an important project of the civil rights movement, they find themselves having to flee from armed members of the Ku Klux Klan. Close to Martin Luther King, managed to get him out of prison in 1963 by raising the sum of $50,000. In an interview with Keeper in 2007, he declared (via Information about France):

I could have made 2 or 3 billion and ended up with a cruel addiction, but instead I chose to be a civil rights fighter.

After his election in 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy appointed Harry Belafonte as cultural attaché for the Peace Corps, an independent agency of the US government responsible for ensuring world peace and friendship. In 1987, the actor and singer became a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. In 2014 he received an honorary Oscar for “choosing projects that highlight racism and inequality since the beginning of his career”like a film noir The kick of the stairs.

Source: Cine Serie

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