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I've not heard of Harry Belafonte for ages- but he's still around!
Hay Festival 2012: Harry Belafonte is a guest star
Harry Belafonte, the acclaimed singer and social campaigner, will appear at the 2012 Telegraph Hay Festival.
By Martin Chilton, Digital Culture Editor
2:26PM GMT 24 Feb 2012
Singer, actor, civil rights activist and international humanitarian Harry Belafonte will be one of the headline stars of the 2012 Telegraph Hay Festival.
Belafonte, 84, who was born in Harlem, New York, was the first African-American ever to win an Emmy Award and was a key confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. His dedicated work on behalf of African children stricken by poverty and HIV/AIDS, as well as his outspoken advocacy for the poor and oppressed across the globe, has earned international recognition.
His captivating memoir, My Song, won the Outstanding Literary Work (Biography) award at the NAACP Image honours in New York last week.
Belafonte is also known as a vibrant and seminal musician. A Second World War Navy veteran, Belafonte worked as a club singer until his breakthrough 1956 album, Calypso, which was the first LP in history to sell more than one million copies. He was dubbed the King of Calypso for popularising Caribbean music in The Banana Boat Song, with its signature lyric 'Day-O'.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay- ... -star.html
Hay Festival 2012: Harry Belafonte is a guest star
Harry Belafonte, the acclaimed singer and social campaigner, will appear at the 2012 Telegraph Hay Festival.
By Martin Chilton, Digital Culture Editor
2:26PM GMT 24 Feb 2012
Singer, actor, civil rights activist and international humanitarian Harry Belafonte will be one of the headline stars of the 2012 Telegraph Hay Festival.
Belafonte, 84, who was born in Harlem, New York, was the first African-American ever to win an Emmy Award and was a key confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. His dedicated work on behalf of African children stricken by poverty and HIV/AIDS, as well as his outspoken advocacy for the poor and oppressed across the globe, has earned international recognition.
His captivating memoir, My Song, won the Outstanding Literary Work (Biography) award at the NAACP Image honours in New York last week.
Belafonte is also known as a vibrant and seminal musician. A Second World War Navy veteran, Belafonte worked as a club singer until his breakthrough 1956 album, Calypso, which was the first LP in history to sell more than one million copies. He was dubbed the King of Calypso for popularising Caribbean music in The Banana Boat Song, with its signature lyric 'Day-O'.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay- ... -star.html