The singer/actor handed away at his Manhattan residence on Tuesday because of congestive coronary heart failure, his longtime spokesman Ken Sunshine advised The New York Times. Born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr. in Harlem, New York to Caribbean-born mother and father, Belafonte grew to become an enormous star within the Nineteen Fifties. He helped popularise calypso music, regardless that he later carried out in lots of different genres reminiscent of folks, blues and American requirements. The musician was maybe finest identified for songs together with Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), Jump within the Line and Jamaica Farewell,…
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