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Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr., 1927-2023) was an American singer, actor and activist. He is mostly remembered for introducing Caribbean music to the mainstream public with his album "Calypso" (1956). Among his most famous tunes: "Day-O (Banana Boat)", "Jump in the line", "Jamaica Farewell", "Brown Skin Girl". He was also an actor, featuring in movies like "Carmen Jones" (1954), with Dorothy Dandrige. He was also a civil rights activist and friend of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., a human rights activist in Africa and a liberal political activist and critic of US Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump. He received three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a Tony Award and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.