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Daylight has come for Harry Belafonte and he's gone home at age 96


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The iconic singer, who made "Day-O" a national phenomenon, EGOT winner and civil rights trailblazer used his considerable stardom to draw attention to injustices around the world.

 

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Harry Belafonte, the actor, producer and singer who made calypso music a national phenomenon with “Day-O” (The Banana Boat Song) and used his considerable stardom to draw attention to civil rights issues and injustices around the world, has died. He was 96.

 

Belafonte, the Caribbean-American star who received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in November 2014, died on Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with wife Pamela by his side, his longtime spokesman Ken Sunshine confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

 

A master at blending pop, jazz and traditional West Indian rhythms, Belafonte released more than 30 albums during his career and received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy from the Recording Academy in 2000.

 

 

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