Harry Belafonte died on April 25, 2023 in New York at the age of 96. The American artist has led several careers at the same time.
Actor by training, singer and "king of calypso" of course, but also civil rights activists. The hit The Banana Boat Song remains today one of the singer's best-known titles. In the mid-1950s, he met Martin Luther King, with whom he remained friends until his death. He was the first African-American to receive an Emmy Award.