My Belafonte Obituary
Harry Belafonte has been an international music icon for more than 70 years. He's one of the most famous, most successful concert performers in the last half-century. He earned the title, "King of Calypso". His music was from the Islands -- before dreadlocks and Bob Marley and Rastafarians. If you attended one of his concerts in the 1960s or '70s or '80s, you'd s ing along with him. He and his songs were magnetic. He introduced us to bongo drums and limbo bars and steel drums and an Island lifestyle that was so laid-back and so friendly and so unlike ours. In the 1960s and before, the honeymoon capital of the world was Niagara Falls. Belefonte changed that important destination with his music. He may have been the Caribbean's first Director of Tourism -- we all wanted to go there after hearing his music, including me. He's earned Grammys and Emmys and a Tony from Broadway and starred or acted in 33 films. It's