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