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.
- Occupation
- singer, entertainer, civil rights advocate, peace activist
- Position held
- UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
- Citizenship
- United States, Jamaica
- Born
- March 1, 1927
- Died
- April 25, 2023
