Harry Belafonte’s death at age 96 closes one of pop’s most remarkable careers. We look back at some of his songs that made music history.
Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Imagesof work as a civil-rights activist loomed so large in his later years that it can sometimes be easy to forget what a singular legacy he had as a musician. No one had ever sold one million copies of an album before Belafonte did it within 1956 — in that sense alone, he paved the way for everyone from the Beatles to Drake.
closes one of the most remarkable careers in pop history. Here are five classic songs that show his impact.made calypso a household word in the Eisenhower-era U.S. began decades earlier on the docks of Jamaica, where day laborers sang it during their long shifts loading bananas onto export ships.
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