It would have been easy to watch the handsome young man on the black-and-white television screen in 1957 and assume that when he sang “The Banana Boat Song” – “Day-O! Daay-ay-ay-O!” – he was just ...
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s ...