Harry Belafonte, American singer, actor, and activist who was a key figure in the folk music scene of the 1950s, especially known for popularizing the Caribbean folk songs known as calypsos. He was also involved in various social causes, notably the civi
Harry Belafonte has died at age 96. He was a dedicated activist and award-winning actor and singer. He sold millions of records and starred on stage and screen before scaling back his career and becoming a relentless supporter of civil rights and other c
Belafonte, who became famous in the 1950s by popularizing Calypso music from the Caribbean, has been a long time human rights activist. Among other things, he worked with the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He hasn’t stopped working for the ...
most notably in Otto Preminger’s hit musical Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), and Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959). Belafonte was an early supporter of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s confidants. Through...
Harry Belafonte - John Henry (Live) 专辑: Harry Belafonte -The Complete Belafonte At Carnegie Hall Concert 1959-1960 歌手:Harry BelafonteJohn henry he could hammer He could whistle He could sing He went to the mountain early in the mornin' Just to hear his hammer ring Lord Lord ...
and Belafonte would remember feeling King raised him to the “higher plane of social protest.” Then at the peak of his singing career, Belafonte was soon producing a benefit concert for the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that helped make King a national figure. By the early 1960s...
Harry Belafonte crossed racial barriers as a singer and actor and became the first African American to win an Emmy. Born in New York City to Jamaican parents, Belafonte's first hit was "Matilda," followed by "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)." He has spent his career impacting the world ...
That responsibility to speak for the movement led Belafonte to chide Bobby Kennedy in May 1963. Throughout the early 1960s, he expressed frustration with the attorney general’s detachment from the activists’ struggle. But over time, he came to appreciate Kennedy’s e...
Early in 1968, “The Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson, feeling the need to address these issues in a meaningful way, made a stunning decision: He asked actor, singer and Black activist Harry Belafonte to host the show for an entire week. (Remember, this was a ...
Harry Belafonte was one of the principal fundraisers for Martin Luther King’s civil rights campaigns, and he had a leadership role in the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Freedom. In March 1960, that committee published a full-page advertisement in the New York Tim...