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Harry Belafonte is an American <a href="/biography/harry-belafonte">Singer</a>, activist, social
activist, actor and a song writer. He was honored with Academy of Motion Pictures
Arts and Science Governors Award.  He is
among few Caribbean <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans">Americans</a> who were successful in pop genre and he was known
as the King of Calyps because he popularized the Caribbean style.  His breakthrough album was Calypso and it was
the first album to sell in large number made by a single artist.  He is well known because of his banana lyric sung
in his singing signature, Day-O lyrics. 
He recorded many genres which include American Standard, Show Tunes,
Gospel, Folk and blues.  He starred in
different movies like Odds Against Tomorrow, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wise">Robert Wise</a>, Island in the Sun and
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Jones_(film)">Carmen Jones</a>, a musical hit under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Preminger">Otto Preminger</a>.

He became a supporter of the civil right movement at the
early age he was <a href="/biography/harry-belafonte">one</a> of the confident for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr</a>.  He had advocated for many causes like the end
of the apartheid was involved in the USA for Africa Movement. He was an active
voice in criticizing the policies made by <a href="/biography/barack-obama">Barack Obama</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush">George W Bush</a>
administration. He won three Grammy Awards and one was Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award.  Other awards he got are Tony
Award and Emmy Award. He got Kennedy Center Honors and National Medal of Arts.

Harry Belafonte was born under the name of <a href="/biography/harry-belafonte"><a href="/biography/harry-belafonte"><a href="/biography/harry-belafonte">Harold George
Bellanfanti Jr</a></a></a> to Harold George Bellanfati Sr. 
His father was a National Guard Chief and her mother Melvine was a
housekeeper and she had Jamaican descent. He went to live with his grandmother in
the Native country of Jamaica and he returned to New York to do his high school
in George Washington High School. He then joined the Navy and he fought World
War II. He worked as assistant janitor in NYC when one of the tenants gave him
two tickets to see American Negro Theater and this is where he fell in love
with art.

Belafonte married Marguerite Byrd, their marriage started
in 1948 and ended in 1957.  They had two
daughters together, Shari and Adrienne. Shari Belafonte got married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Behrens"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Behrens"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Behrens">Sam
Behrens</a></a></a> and she is an actress, singer, model and photographer.

In  1957, <a href="/biography/harry-belafonte"><a href="/biography/harry-belafonte"><a href="/biography/harry-belafonte">Harry
Belafonte</a></a></a> became the husband to
Julie Robinson who was a dancer of Katherine Dunham Company. During their marriage, they have two children
together, David and Gina.  His marriage
to Julie Robinson is known to be one of the longest marriages between interracial
couple.  However, they got a divorce after 50 years and they
divorced in 2007. In the same year, he married his third wife, Pamela Frank.  The longevity of marriage was also installed in
the lives of his children who do not have the record of many divorces.

Harry Belafonte’s net
worth is 28 million dollars and he had built it from the money he makes
from his activist, actor and singer works.  He was the first black to win an Emmy and to
sell the highest number of his album. However, he says that his best
achievement is fighting against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger">World Hunger</a>, violence and racism.

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