Harold Belafonte (born March 1st, 1927 in Harlem, New York City, New York) was a Singer-Songwriter who was best known as the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style in the 1950s. Harry died on April 24th, 2023 and his death was due to congestive heart failure. He was 96 years old when he died.
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Singer-SongwriterAmerican Born on March 1st Born in 1927 Born in New York Died in 2023 Died at age 96 Died from Heart failure
"Unless you have had the experience of sitting in a village in war-ravaged Guatemala, or a humble, box-like room in the wretched South African township of Alexandra, or in a dust-covered hovel on a Native American reservation, or in the tin shacks that house the thousands who live desperate lives in East Kingston Jamaica, or in an overcrowded, below-poverty-level dwelling in a Ghetto in New York, Chicago, or Detroit, among people whose lives are dominated by their bitter struggle for existence and some bit of dignity, unless you've seen from these places the looks on the faces of small children as they watched Sesame Street or the Muppets, you'll never really understand what Jim and his colleagues have done for millions of children all over the world, children who have never smiled, nor dared to dream, had it not been for Jim Henson. I come from those places; I know these faces. Through them I came to fully appreciate Jim. (IMDB)"
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