Come Away Melindaby Harry Belafonte

Thank you, Harry. Rest in Peace. Harry Belafonte was an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Caribbean-American pop star, he popularized Jamaican mento folk songs which was marketed as Trinbagonian Calypso musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Born in Harlem New York in 1927, he passed away today at the age of 96.