Harry Belafonte

About

Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte’s career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.

Albums/Songs:

• Jump Up Calypso
• The Midnight Special
• An Evening With Belafonte / Mouskouri
• Belafonte Sings the Blues
• In My Quiet Room
• Belafonte on Campus
• Swing Dat Hammer
• “Mark Twain” and Other Folk Favorites
• My Lord What a Mornin’
• Porgy and Bess
• Harry Belafonte
• To Wish You a Merry Christmas
• Streets I Have Walked
• Ballads, Blues and Boasters
• Sings of Love
• Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean
• The Many Moods of Belafonte
• Love Is a Gentle Thing
• Belafonte
• Calypso in Brass
• Belafonte – By Request
• An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba
• Calypso
• Homeward Bound
• An Evening With Belafonte

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