(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DAY O") HARRY BELAFONTE: (Singing) Day o, day o. BLAIR: In the 1950s, his recordings for RCA Victor set off a calypso craze. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DAY O") BELAFONTE ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DAY O") HARRY BELAFONTE: (Singing) Day o. BLOCK: ...And the outsized role Belafonte played throughout the civil rights movement. That role led to a deep and enduring ...

Belafonte died Tuesday morning of congestive ... Tony Curtis and Bea Arthur. He also fell into singing in nightclubs – once in a band that included jazz greats Charlie Parker and Max Roach ...

Harry Belafonte Jr. sings and claps his hands along with a group of men sitting around him in 1955. A band plays in the back of the room. A portrait of Harry Belafonte as he stars on “Colgate ...

In a rich musical career initially defined by the lilting sounds of calypso, over the course of seven decades, Harry ... Belafonte captured several shades of Ray Charles on 1958’s “Belafonte ...

Harry Belafonte, the singer ... “Almost all the songs that I later came to sing were songs that I heard among the peasants and the people of my family at that time,” Belafonte said in the ...

Fearing that Harry was already turning into a delinquent ... and stalwart anti-communist Ed Sullivan vouched for him by booking Belafonte to sing several times on his popular TV show.

Harry Belafonte, the famed folk singer and dashing actor who parlayed his fame and fortune into significant civil rights contributions, has died. He was 96. Belafonte’s indelible flame flickers ...

Harry Belafonte, the dashing singer ... Tony Curtis and Bea Arthur. He also fell into singing in nightclubs – once in a band that included jazz greats Charlie Parker and Max Roach – and ...

Harry Belafonte, the dashing singer ... Tony Curtis and Bea Arthur. He also fell into singing in nightclubs – once in a band that included jazz greats Charlie Parker and Max Roach – and ...

Harry Belafonte, the singer who became one of the first Black leading men in Hollywood and later a major voice in the civil rights movement, died Tuesday at age 96. Belafonte’s extraordinary ...

Throughout his long career, Belafonte continued to sing “Day-O,” which he once ... I’d know,” Belafonte wrote in his 2011 memoir “Harry Belafonte: My Song.” He made a number of visits ...