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13 unusual facts about Harry Belafonte


1957 Scottish League Cup Final

In the summer of 1957, the motion picture Island in the Sun was released in Europe, featuring a title song by Harry Belafonte.

Bob McFadden

After the war, he went on to work at a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and continued performing nights as an opening act for artists such as Harry Belafonte.

Calypso-style baila

It grew out of Sri Lankan musicians' fascination with the music of the Caribbean in the 1960s, particularly Harry Belafonte and calypso music.

Dee Harvey

Harvey was known for his 1991 hit "Leave well enough alone" and for once singing with Harry Belafonte in 1989.

Fernando Arbex

Alongside his career as a musician, Arbex acted as a producer and songwriter for many successful acts, including Jose Feliciano, Harry Belafonte, Nana Mouskouri, Emilio Aragón, Miguel Bosé and Middle of the Road.

Frederick O'Neal

Among theater companies which he helped organize were Harlem's American Negro Theatre in 1940, which started the careers of Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, among others.

Gerard Sekoto

Here he played jazz and sang ‘Negro Spirituals’, popular French songs of the period and some Harry Belafonte.

Inger Stevens

In addition to these marriages she had been romantically linked to Bing Crosby, Anthony Quinn, Dean Martin, Clint Eastwood, Harry Belafonte, Mario Lanza and Burt Reynolds.

Kenneth Cole Productions

In 2005, Cole spearheaded the “We All Have AIDS” awareness campaign with advertisements photographed by Mark Seliger and featuring such luminaries as Nelson Mandela, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Elton John, Sharon Stone, Richard Gere, Elizabeth Taylor, Alicia Keys, Desmond Tutu, Natasha Richardson, Eric McCormack, Ashley Judd, Whoopi Goldberg, Harry Belafonte, Greg Louganis and Rosie O'Donnell.

Miss Calypso

He complimented Angelou's performance, saying that she "sung with respectable gutsiness", and compared the album to Harry Belafonte's calypso recordings of the same era.

Tomás Méndez

The song "Cucurrucucú paloma" was played in many movie pictures like The Last Sunset, Happy Together, Talk to Her and The Five Year Engagement and has also been performed by notable singers such as Harry Belafonte, Perry Como, Lola Beltrán and Caetano Veloso.

Walter Kaner

Kaner once stood in for Ed Sullivan, jokingly reminding his television audience that he was the one who rejected acts such as Harry Belafonte and Barbra Streisand.

Zoran Madžirov

Zoran performed with and was honored by stars such as Sting, Tito Puente, Tina Turner, Harry Belafonte, Scorpions, Tommy Emmanuel and others.


An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri

An Evening With Belafonte/Mouskouri is an album by Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri, released by RCA Victor (LPM-3415) in 1966.

Bakithi Kumalo

Bakithi Kumalo is a South African bassist, composer and vocalist who has worked with a wide variety of diverse artists including Gloria Estefan, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Harry Belafonte, Cyndi Lauper and Paul Simon.

Caribbean Guitar

Atkin's treatment of "Banana Boat Song" is based on The Tarriers' version, not Harry Belefonte's more famous rendition.

Cucurrucucú paloma

It has also been recorded by popular singers such as Luis Miguel, Rocío Dúrcal, Pedro Infante, Perry Como, Caetano Veloso, Miguel Aceves Mejía, Harry Belafonte, Nana Mouskouri, Julio Iglesias, Shirley Kwan, Lila Downs, Joan Baez (on her album Gracias a la Vida), Rosemary Clooney, and The Del Rubio Triplets.

Grambling's White Tiger

Harry Belafonte stars as Coach Eddie Robinson and LeVar Burton (already famous from Roots and later to be known for Reading Rainbow and Star Trek TNG) appears as Charles 'Tank' Smith, the first friend Jim Gregory makes on the team.

Joni T. Johnson

Her paintings, always signed J.T. Johnson, have been owned by Katharine Hepburn, Harry Belafonte, Lana Turner, Joel Grey and Vincent Price.

Malvina Reynolds

She went on to write several popular songs, including "Little Boxes," "What Have They Done to the Rain," recorded by The Searchers and Joan Baez (about nuclear fallout), "It Isn't Nice" (a civil rights anthem), "Turn Around" (about children growing up, later sung by Harry Belafonte), and "There's a Bottom Below" (about depression).

Mark Warford

Mark Warford has written with, directed and produced notable international artists such as producer and Eurythmics co-founder, David A. Stewart, platinum-selling British soul singer, Joss Stone, and luminaries such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Harry Belafonte.

Michael Terrace

They worked closely and often with legends such as Tito Puente, Machito, Sammy Davis, Jr., Harry Belafonte and many other stars of the 1950s and 1960s.

Shaka Sankofa

Sankofa's supporters, including Coretta Scott King, bishop Desmond Tutu, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and celebrities Danny Glover, Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie, Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee, brought his case international attention, arguing that his conviction was based on the claim that the testimony of a single eyewitness who said she saw him for a few seconds in the dark parking lot committing the murder.

The Kuguars

The album also featured the hit songs "Zidareva ljubav", a turbo folk parody song, for which the song lyrics were written by the director Srđan Dragojević, and the soccer anthem "Dejo" (a cover of Harry Belafonte song "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)"), dedicated to the member of the Yugoslav national soccer team Dejan Savićević.

Tony Cedras

He has performed or recorded, most often on accordion, with various well-known artists, including Paul Simon, Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba, Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams, Cassandra Wilson, Hugh Masekela, Tony Bird and Gigi.

WAAX

But the main ongoing agenda was the African American civil rights movement where he covered church civil-rights meetings, KKK rallies, and protests, and interviewed such notables as Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte, and others for the station.