Calypso legend and civil rights legend Harry Belafonte has died
Mr Belafonte was pronounced dead at his home in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York on Tuesday. He died of congestive heart failure, his spokesperson said.
Mr Belafonte, who was born in New York and raised partly in Jamaica, is thought to have had the first album to have reached a million sales, with Calypso. Mr Belafonte was a prominent activist for civil rights in the US and abroad, and was a friend and supporter of Martin Luther King and Paul Robeson.
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