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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Groundbreaking singer, actor and Black activist Harry Belafonte dies aged 96

Singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte has died at the age of 96, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Belafonte - who started his entertainment career ‘belting ‘Day O’ in his 1950s hit song ‘Banana Boat’ before turning to political activism - is understood to have died at his home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

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