Artist: Harry Belafonte Genre(s):
Jazz
Folk
Other
Easy Listening
Pop
Discography:
Collections Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Ultimate Collection Year: 2005
Tracks: 25
Island in the Sun Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
Greatest Hits Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
The Greatest Hits Of Harry Belafonte Year: 2003
Tracks: 23
Live Europe Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Ultimate Collection CD3 Year: 1997
Tracks: 16
Ultimate Collection CD2 Year: 1997
Tracks: 16
Calypso From Jamaica Year: 1997
Tracks: 18
Calypso Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Sings Of The Caribbian (Vinyl) Year: 1957
Tracks: 11
The Best Of Harry Belafonte Year:
Tracks: 14
Songs for Dancing Year:
Tracks: 16
Live - Belafonte at Carnegie Hall Year:
Tracks: 1
Hits and Rare Songs Year:
Tracks: 25
Gold - 20 Super Hits Year:
Tracks: 20
Banana Boat E Other Famous Folk Songs Year:
Tracks: 17
An worker, do-gooder, and the acknowledged "King of Calypso," Harry Belafonte stratified among the nearly seminal performers of the postwar era. One of the most successful African-American pop stars in story, Belafonte's astounding natural endowment, estimable looks, and consummate assimilation of sept, jazz, and worldbeat rhythms allowed him to attain a level of mainstream distinction and crossover popularity about unequalled in the days before the advent of the polite rights movement -- a cultural rebellion which he himself helped spearhead.
Harold George Belafonte, Jr., was innate March 1, 1927, in Harlem, NY. The logos of Caribbean-born immigrants, he returned with his female parent to her native Jamaica at the age of eight, left there for the side by side five age. Upon reversive to the U.S., Belafonte dropped out of high school to enlist in the U.S. Navy; after his assoil, he relocated in New York City to spirt a calling as an actor, acting with the American Negro Theatre piece studying drama at Erwin Piscator's famed Dramatic Workshop alongside the likes of Marlon Brando and Tony Curtis.
A telling role resulted in a series of night club engagements, and finally Belafonte fifty-fifty opened his possess club. Initially, he put his top, silken voice to work as a straight pop up singer, launch his recording calling on the Jubilee label in 1949; yet, at the dayspring of the fifties he observed sept music, eruditeness material through the Library of Congress' American folk songs archives while also discovering West Indian music. With guitar player Millard Thomas, Belafonte shortly made his debut at the legendary jazz club the Village Vanguard; in 1953, he made his cinema bow in
Bright Road, winning a Tony Award the side by side twelvemonth for his work in the Broadway review John Murray Anderson's Almanac.
With his lead role in Otto Preminger's photographic film adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones, Belafonte shooter to stardom; after signing to the RCA judge, he issued
Scar Twain and Other Folk Favorites, which reached the number tercet slot on the Billboard charts in the other weeks of 1956. His succeeding exploit, highborn simply
Belafonte, reached number one, kick-starting a national craze for calypso music;
Calypso, as well issued in 1956, topped the charts for a stupefying 31 weeks on the strength of hits like "Jamaica Farewell" and the immortal "Banana Boat (Day-O)."
Following the success of 1957's
An Evening with Belafonte and its strike "Mary's Boy Child," Belafonte returned to photographic film, victimisation his now considerable pull to actualize the controversial celluloid
Island in the Sun, in which his fibre contemplates an thing with a egg white cleaning lady portrayed by Joan Fontaine. Similarly, 1959's
Odds Against Tomorrow cast him as a bank robber teamed with a racist accomplice. Also in 1959 he released the LP
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall, a recording of a sold-out April carrying into action that exhausted over troika days on the charts;
Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall followed in 1960 and featured appearances by Odetta, Miriam Makeba, and the Chad Mitchell Trio.
At the turn of the sixties, Belafonte became television's starting time black manufacturer; his special
Tonight with Harry Belafonte won an Emmy that same year. Although dissatisfied with filmmaking, he continued his prolific record album turnout with 1961's
Alternate Up Calypso and 1962's
The Midnight Special, which featured the first-ever recorded appearance by a youth harp player named Bob Dylan. As the Beatles and other stars of the British Invasion began to master the pop charts, Belafonte's impact as a commercial force diminished; 1964's
Belafonte at the Greek Theatre was his terminal Top 40 exploit, and subsequent efforts like 1965's
An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba and 1966's
In My Quiet Room struggled even to crack the Top C. 1969's
Homeward Bound earned Belafonte his last Billboard chart appearance, although he continued to record. He then made his first base plastic film appearance in all over a decade in 1970's
The Angel Levine and continued to focussing on his work as a civil rights militant.
In increase to his continued work in recording (albeit less oftentimes after going RCA in the mid-'70s) and photographic film (1972's
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and the Preacher and 1974's
Uptown Saturday Night), Belafonte spent an increasing amount of the 1970s and eighties as a indefatigable humanist; nigh famously, he was a central pattern of the USA for Africa exploit, singing on the 1985 single "We Are the World." A year afterwards, he replaced Danny Kaye as UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador. After a long absence from the silver screen, Belafonte resurfaced in the mid-'90s in a number of film roles, most notably in the reverse-racism drama
White Man's Burden and Robert Altman's jazz-era period man
Kansa City. Although at this point Belafonte had stopped up recording new medicine, he unbroken his nominate in the news by releasing the casual live album (including 1997's
An Evening with Harry Belafonte & Friends) as good as existence an candid exponent of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and opposite of the Bush government.
