He was raised in poverty, dropped out of high school, and survived being Black in a segregated society — before Black Lives Matter or Black History Month. He also became the first Black megastar and ...

The King Of Calypso is about as frivolous and inappropriate a moniker for Harry Belafonte as possible. With the calypso and hits like “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” in the Fifties, he certainly ...

Composer Irving Burgie, who helped popularize Caribbean music and co-wrote the enduring Harry Belafonte hit Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), has died at the age of 95. At the Barbados Independence Day ...

Singer, actor, producer and activist Harry Belafonte, who spawned a calypso craze in the U.S. with his music and blazed new trails for African American performers, died Tuesday of congestive heart ...

Harry Belafonte used his time on this earth to produce amazing tunes and fight for what was right. He was a calypso music icon, one with seven Top 10 albums in the US (and 15 Top 40 albums). He ...

Who Wrote “Mama Look a Boo Boo”? The song was written by its original singer, Lord Melody, alongside Lord Burgess, with Belafonte also being credited for adapting some of the lyrics for his version.

From the shores of the Caribbean. But Harry Belafonte was so much more than that. He was born in Harlem, New York. 1927. To parents from Jamaica. Growing up, he lived in Jamaica with his grandparents ...

René Marie, a formidable presence, was definitely INTO the genre, as if born to the breed, taking on the style and sound, swaying and sashaying smilingly to the flow and feel, the percolating beats, ...