# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harry-belafonte
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:04:59.648Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harry-belafonte"
name: "Harry Belafonte"
slug: "harry-belafonte"
description: "Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist."
tagline: "American singer, actor and civil rights activist (1927–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harry_Belafonte_2011_Shankbone.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1927-03-01"
deathDate: "2023-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           26.58856
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "harrybelafonte"
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    handle:    "harrybelafonte"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "6Tw1ktF4xMmzaLLbe98I2z"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Harry Belafonte"
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    title: "Χάρι Μπελαφόντε"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harry Belafonte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harry Belafonte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harry Belafonte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harry Belafonte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harry Belafonte"
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    title: "Harry Belafonte"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump