Tuesday, March 1, the world’s Day’ O, Banana Boat man turns 95 years old. How remarkable!
Harry Belafonte is truly a one of a kind performing artist.
He can act.
He can dance.
He can sing.
For these reasons, Belafonte is certainly my favorite triple threat performer.
For real, for real, I only become discombobulated when it’s time for me to choose my Harry Belafonte song to sing at karaoke. His music leads my song list. Singing his songs guarantee I will certainly become karaoke king for that evening.
Whenever I travel to New York City, I am almost certain to tour a nearby bookstore, particularly one that is within walking range of Penn Station.
If I am most fortunate, I would locate a book on the life of Harry Belafonte. At any cost, I surely will buy it.
From his life’s works, it is incomparable to define Belafonte as a superb performance artist or a civil rights activist. Belafonte was a major contributor in Dr. Martin Luther King’s campaign.
Are you my brother from another mother? This year with the deaf of Sidney Poitier in January, how substantiated.
Both Poitier and Belafonte were born the same year: 1927. Direct peers. Their performance careers were identical. Belafonte and Poitier were like twins, mimicking each other.
Having resided nearly a century of his lifetime in Harlem, it is fair to assume Belafonte is New York’s most infamous New Yorker.
“Amen!”
