SINGER

Harry Belafonte

1927 - 2023

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Harry Belafonte ( BEL-ə-FON-tee; born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) 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. Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)", "Jamaica Farewell", and "Mary's Boy Child". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Belafonte has received more than 11,531,166 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Harry Belafonte is the 94th most popular singer (up from 117th in 2019), the 575th most popular biography from United States (up from 764th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Singer.

Harry Belafonte is most famous for being a singer, an actor, and a social activist.

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  • 12M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Harry Belafonte ranks 94 out of 4,381. Before him are Lata Mangeshkar, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Teresa Teng, and Steven Tyler. After him are Roy Orbison, Dieter Bohlen, Glen Campbell, Robert Plant, Enya, and Renata Tebaldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Harry Belafonte ranks 23. Before him are Kim Young-sam, Sidney Poitier, Lawrence Kohlberg, Albert Uderzo, Janet Leigh, and Niklas Luhmann. After him are Simone Veil, Hubert de Givenchy, Robert Hossein, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Gilbert Bécaud, and Maurice Béjart. Among people deceased in 2023, Harry Belafonte ranks 35. Before him are Li Keqiang, Ferid Murad, Raquel Welch, Helmut Berger, Burt Young, and Carlos Saura. After him are Robert Solow, László Sólyom, Renata Scotto, Matthew Perry, Antonio Negri, and William Friedkin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Belafonte ranks 575 out of 20,380. Before him are Eddie Murphy (1961), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Steven Tyler (1948), Arthur Compton (1892), John Coltrane (1926), and Babe Ruth (1895). After him are Roy Orbison (1936), Sidney Sheldon (1917), Stanley Cohen (1922), Matt Damon (1970), William S. Burroughs (1914), and Hugh Everett III (1930).

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Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Harry Belafonte ranks 38. Before him are The Notorious B.I.G. (1972), Diana Ross (1944), Gwen Stefani (1969), Donna Summer (1948), Gloria Gaynor (1947), and Steven Tyler (1948). After him are Roy Orbison (1936), Glen Campbell (1936), Art Garfunkel (1941), Ariana Grande (1993), Dolly Parton (1946), and Laura Branigan (1952).

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