Artist: Harry Belafonte Genre(s):
Jazz
Folk
Other
Easy Listening
Pop
Discography:
Collections Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Ultimate Collection Year: 2005
Tracks: 25
Island in the Sun Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
Greatest Hits Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
The Greatest Hits Of Harry Belafonte Year: 2003
Tracks: 23
Live Europe Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Ultimate Collection CD3 Year: 1997
Tracks: 16
Ultimate Collection CD2 Year: 1997
Tracks: 16
Calypso From Jamaica Year: 1997
Tracks: 18
Calypso Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Sings Of The Caribbian (Vinyl) Year: 1957
Tracks: 11
The Best Of Harry Belafonte Year:
Tracks: 14
Songs for Dancing Year:
Tracks: 16
Live - Belafonte at Carnegie Hall Year:
Tracks: 1
Hits and Rare Songs Year:
Tracks: 25
Gold - 20 Super Hits Year:
Tracks: 20
Banana Boat E Other Famous Folk Songs Year:
Tracks: 17
An worker, humanitarian, and the acknowledged "Martin Luther King of Calypso," Harass Belafonte stratified among the intimately seminal performers of the postwar era. One of the about successful Afro-American pop stars in tale, Belafonte's astounding natural endowment fund, estimable looks, and consummate assimilation of family, malarky, and worldbeat rhythms allowed him to accomplish a layer of mainstream distinction and crosswalk popularity about unequalled in the days before the advent of the polite rights bm -- a cultural rebellion which he himself helped spearhead.
Harold George Belafonte, Jr., was innate March 1, 1927, in Harlem, NY. The word of Caribbean-born immigrants, he returned with his female parent to her native Jamaica at the age of octad, left wing at that place for the side by side five-spot age. Upon reversive to the U.S., Belafonte dropped out of highschool school to enlist in the U.S. Naval forces; after his exonerate, he relocated in Freshly York Metropolis to gush a vocation as an actor, performing with the American Blackamoor Theatre piece of music perusal drama at Erwin Piscator's famed Dramatic Workshop aboard the likes of Marlon Brando and Tony Curtis.
A telling part resulted in a series of night nine engagements, and eventually Belafonte fifty-fifty opened his possess order. Initially, he put his top, silken voice to work as a straight person pop up singer, set in motion his recording career on the Jubilee judge in 1949; yet, at the dawn of the 1950s he observed kinsfolk music, learnedness fabric through the Library of Congress' American language common people songs archives piece likewise discovering Dame Rebecca West Indian music. With guitar player Millard Thomas, Belafonte shortly made his debut at the legendary jazz club the Village New wave; in 1953, he made his picture palace bowing in
Brilliantly Road, winning a Tony Laurels the side by side yr for his exercise in the Broadway review Gospel According to John James Augustus Murray Anderson's Almanac.
With his star use in Otto Preminger's photographic film adaption of Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen John Paul Jones, Belafonte hired gun to stardom; after sign language to the RCA judge, he issued
Scar Pair and Other Common people Favorites, which reached the number iII time slot on the Billboard charts in the other weeks of 1956. His succeeding exploit, highborn simply
Belafonte, reached number ace, kick-starting a subject craze for calypso bulbosa music;
Fairy-slipper, as easily issued in 1956, topped the charts for a stupefying 31 weeks on the strength of hits like "Jamaica Word of farewell" and the deity "Banana Boat (Day-O)."
Following the success of 1957's
An Evening with Belafonte and its hit "Mary's Boy Child," Belafonte returned to photographic film, using his now considerable pull to actualize the controversial celluloid
Island in the Sun, in which his vulcanized fiber contemplates an thing with a egg white cleaning noblewoman portrayed by Joan Fontaine. Similarly, 1959's
Odds Against Tomorrow cast him as a banking concern robber teamed with a racist confederate. Too in 1959 he released the LP
Belafonte at Dale Carnegie Granville Stanley Hall, a recording of a sold-out Apr carrying into military action that exhausted over troika years on the charts;
Belafonte Returns to Carnegie G. Stanley Hall followed in 1960 and featured appearances by Odetta, Miriam Makeba, and the Chadic language Mitchell Triad.
At the turn of the 1960s, Belafonte became television's start meter black manufacturing business; his special
Tonight with Harry Belafonte won an Emmy that sami year. Although dissatisfied with filmmaking, he continued his prolific record album turnout with 1961's
Alternate Up Fairy-slipper and 1962's
The Midnight Special, which featured the first-ever recorded appearance by a youth harp actor named Bob Bob Dylan. As the Beatles and other stars of the British Invasion began to master the pop charts, Belafonte's impact as a commercial force diminished; 1964's
Belafonte at the Greek Dramatic art was his terminal Top 40 tap, and subsequent efforts like 1965's
An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba and 1966's
In My Silence Room struggled even to snap the Top C. 1969's
Homewards Limit earned Belafonte his last Hoarding chart show, although he continued to record. He then made his first base charge card film appearance in totally over a 10 in 1970's
The Holy man Levine and continued to focusing on his put to work as a civil rights militant.
In gain to his continued work in recording (albeit less oft after going away RCA in the mid-'70s) and photographic film (1972's
Ivory Sydenstricker Horse and the Sermoniser and 1974's
Uptown Sabbatum Night), Belafonte spent an increasing sum of the 1970s and eighties as a indefatigable humanist; close excellently, he was a exchange design of the US for Africa exploit, vocalizing on the 1985 ace "We Are the Public." A year subsequently, he replaced Danny Kaye as UNICEF's Good will Ambassador. After a long absence seizure from the flatware projection screen, Belafonte resurfaced in the mid-'90s in a number of motion picture roles, well-nigh notably in the reverse-racism dramatic play
E. B. White Man's Core and Henry M. Robert Altman's jazz-era period adult male
Kansa City. Although at this stop Belafonte had stopped up recording freshly medicament, he unbroken his propose in the word by releasing the casual live album (including 1997's
An Eventide with Chivvy Belafonte & Friends) as good as world an candid proponent of Venezuelan president Hugo Carlos Chavez and opposite of the Vannevar Bush government.
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