George Harold "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. (born March 1, 1927 Originally Belafonete) is an American activist musician, singer, actor and social. One of the most successful singers in pop history, has been called the "King of Calypso", a title that was very reluctant to accept (the documentary Calypso Dreams) for disclosing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in 1950. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song" is known by his signatureLyric "Day-O". During his career he was a supporter of civil rights and humanitarian causes, and was a critic of the policies of George W. Bush. Born Harold George Belafonete, Jr., at the Lying-in Hospital, New York, New York, Belafonte, the son of Melvin (nee Love), was a ruler (Jamaican descent) and Harold Belafonete George Sr., one of Martinique who worked as a cook in the Royal Navy. From 1932 to 1940 he lived with his grandmother in the villageAboukir in her native country of Jamaica. When he returned to New York City he attended George Washington High School after which he joined the Navy and served during World War II. At the end of the 1940s, he took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Bea Arthur, and Sidney Poitier, while performing with the American Negro Theatre. He subsequently ... Dual Action Recumbent Exercise Bike Coupon
