Harry Belafonte Said this Before Death. R.I.P legend

Harry Belafonte Said this Before Death. R.I.P legend
Singer-actor-activist Harry Belafonte, who lived to be 96 years old, has passed away. His representative told the New York Times that congestive heart failure was the cause of death.

Belafonte fought for many causes throughout his life in addition to performing worldwide classics like "Day-O" (The Banana Boat Song), winning a Tony Award for acting, and appearing in dozens of films. He supported left-leaning political figures like Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, and he funded various programmes in the 1960s to bring civil rights to Black Americans.

Belafonte spent the first eight years of his life in the poverty-stricken Jamaica of his parents after being born in working-class Harlem, New York, in 1927. After moving back to New York to finish high school, he quickly dropped out due to dyslexia. Then, in March of 1944, at the age of 17, he enlisted in the United States Navy and began working as a weapons loader at a facility in New Jersey.

He watched performances at New York's American Negro Theatre (together with fellow aspiring actor Sidney Poitier) after the war ended and dreamed of becoming an actor, but instead worked as a janitor's helper. He supported himself through singing folk, pop, and jazz pieces in New York club performances with bands that included Miles Davis and Charlie Parker while he attended acting classes with students like Marlon Brando and Walter Matthau.

In 1954, he put out his first record, a compilation of old timey folk tunes. His second album, Belafonte, debuted at No. 1 on the new US Billboard album chart in March 1956, but his third album, Calypso, which featured music from his Jamaican ancestry, was even more successful. It was the first record to sell over a million copies in the United States, and it introduced many people to the upbeat calypso style for the first time.

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