There are so many reasons to grieve the death of Harry Belafonte. And yet, grief cannot be separated from gratitude, or from the worlds of good Belafonte did for so many, across a long, rich life, writes phillipstribune.
? You’d be reading these words an hour earlier, if I’d been able to stop listening to those two Belafonte hits, among many, over and over and overandoverandover, in the name of research and background.
Singer Harry Belafonte's groundbreaking 1956 album “Calypso,” the first million-selling album by a single artist in history.He was a wonderfully effective actor, though it was Sidney Poitier who became the breakthrough Black movie star Belafonte might’ve become if things had fallen differently. They were friends for most of their lives, and while the professional rivalry got sticky, they saw it through to the other side.
Singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte in a 1976 Paris photo. Belafonte died April 25 in New York City at the age of 96.
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