Harry Belefonte Dies at 96

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By Peter Keepnews

April 25, 2023Updated 10:21 a.m. ET

Harry Belafonte, who stormed the pop charts and smashed racial barriers in the 1950s with his highly personal brand of folk music, and who went on to become a dynamic force in the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 96...

 

Mr. Belafonte was equally successful as a concert attraction: Handsome and charismatic, he held audiences spellbound with dramatic interpretations of a repertoire that encompassed folk traditions from all over the world — rollicking calypsos like “Matilda,” work songs like “Lead Man Holler,” tender ballads like “Scarlet Ribbons.” By 1959 he was the most highly paid Black performer in history, with fat contracts for appearances in Las Vegas, at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and at the Palace in New York.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/music/harry-belafonte-dead.html

 

Edited April 25, 2023 by ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone

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He was good, but I did not like him when he killed Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones.