Harry Belafonte, a great African-American singer nicknamed "the king of calypso," died Tuesday in New York at the age of 96. An iconic artist of an era, the man who was also an actor had become a major civil rights activist and had linked up with Martin Luther King.
Born in Harlem on March 1, 1927 to a Jamaican mother and a Martinican father, the singer has been the voice of these rhythms with Matilda, Day-O, Island in the Sun and Jamaica Farewell.