Harry Belafonte's biography
Harry Belafonte is 95 years old singer born at Harlem. He was born on Tuesday 1st of March 1927. He is often nicknamed as The King of Calypso. According to year of birth 1927 he belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 1st of March means he is Pisces. Pisces is a Watery Sign. They are very intuitive people. They are empathic, emotional and highly spiritual in nature.
He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be singer. You can know him also as actor, peace activist, television actor, songwriter. He is recently known as recording artist.
Harry Belafonte's family
He has 1 son and 2 daughters
Harry Belafonte's son: David Belafonte
Harry Belafonte's son's name is David Belafonte. He is known as actor. His son was born on Monday 30th of September 1957 in New York City.
Harry Belafonte's daughter: Shari Belafonte
Harry Belafonte's daughter's name is Shari Belafonte. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Wednesday 22nd of September 1954 in New York City.
Harry Belafonte's daughter: Gina Belafonte
Harry Belafonte's daughter's name is Gina Belafonte. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Friday 8th of September 1961 in New York City.
Harry Belafonte's schools
We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: New School, George Washington Educational Campus, Wolmer's Schools.
Detailed informations about his schools
- Attended George Washington High School in New York City, where he was on the track team.
Harry Belafonte's career
His main focus is to be singer. He focuses on calypso music. He is also a member of Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers.
Awards and competitions
Harry Belafonte's Awards
- Won Broadway's 1954 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "John Murray Anderson's Almanac", becoming the first Black performer to receive a Tony Award.
- He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, D.C. (1994).
- Was the first African-American man to receive an Emmy Award, with his first solo TV special "Tonight with Belafonte" (1959).
- He was a Kennedy Center Honoree (1989), he was awarded the National Medal of Arts (1994), and he won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2000).
- In 1985, he was one of the organizers behind the Grammy Award winning song "We Are the World", a multi-artist effort to raise funds for Africa, and performed in the Live Aid concert that same year.
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6721 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
What Harry Belafonte has done for a first time
- Recorded the first million-selling LP album with "Calypso" (RCA: 1956), which started a craze for this traditional Jamaican folk music in the United States.
- Won Broadway's 1954 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "John Murray Anderson's Almanac", becoming the first Black performer to receive a Tony Award.
- His album "Midnight Special" (1962) featured the first-ever recorded appearance by a then young harmonica player named Bob Dylan.
- Was the first African-American man to receive an Emmy Award, with his first solo TV special "Tonight with Belafonte" (1959).
Harry Belafonte's quotes
- I wasn't an artist who became an activist. I was an activist who became an artist. Ever since my mother had drummed it into me, I'd felt the need to fight injustice wherever I saw it, in whatever way I could.
- Knowing I was playing to an influential crowd, I'd snuck a little politics, with new lines for old songs, like "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore": "Mississippi on your knees, Hallelujah!/ Another bus is on the way, Hallelujah.".
- I was good as a singer, but I wasn't the best, and I'd known that from the start. I had to rely on my acting. And in the end I could make a case that I was the greatest actor in the world: I'd convinced everyone I could sing.
- [on first meeting Martin Luther King] He had said that we would take maybe twenty or thirty minutes to just talk. It was almost four hours when we finally broke for breath.
- If you believe in freedom, if you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, you have no choice but to support Fidel Castro.
- When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.
- Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in. ... You should go through life knowing, "I am somebody."
Harry Belafonte's body shape
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