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Harold George Belafonte, Jr., b. New York City, Mar. 1, 1927,
became internationally famous as a singer of Jamaican calypso
and other folk music. Born of West Indian parents, he spent
part of his youth in the United States and part in Jamaica.
He worked as a jazz singer in the late 1940s and became part
of the Greenwich Village folk revival in the 1950s. His West
Indian records include "Jamaica Farewell" (1956)
and "Island in the Sun" (1957). He continues to
perform and is politically active.
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