Harry Belafonte—the chart-topping Jamaican-American singer, actor, and activist—has died at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, according to spokesman Ken Sunshine.
, a new documentary chronicling Belafonte’s ongoing social justice work, was being “readied for premiere at fall film festivals.”)
Belafonte was born in Harlem and raised for a time in his parents’ native Jamaica before returning to the United States and serving in the Navy during World War II. After his discharge, he became involved with the American Negro Theater, where he both performed and worked as a stagehand, soon befriending the late
Yet it was Belafonte’s career in music—first as a jazz act, later as a folk and calypso artist—that took off first after he signed to RCA Victor in 1953; three years later, his breakout albumwould become the first LP to sell a million copies within a year, spending 31 weeks at the top of the Billboard charts. Belafonte subsequently won an Emmy for the TV special and performed at the inaugural gala for President John F. Kennedy.
After the news of Belafonte’s death broke on Tuesday, figures from entertainment, politics, media, and beyond took to Twitter to share tributes:
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