The 'Activist Who Became an Artist'

Harry Belafonte has passed at 96. This singer/musician, actor, and activist devoted his life for causes particularly for civil rights. Yet his career crossed over TV and films as well as music. This is the originator of "The Banana Boat Song" with its Day-O lyrics used in such films as Beetlejuice. He is arguably the greatest Calypso singer ever and most popular artist of his time being the first recording artist to sell a million LPs.  He starred in musicals like Carmen Jones and dramas like Island in the Sun. He more recently appeared in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman. He won every major performing arts award including three Grammys, an Emmy, a Tony and The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Oscars. A life well lived and served.