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‘Rebel spirit’ … Harry Belafonte in 2011. Photograph: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images
CALYPSO

Harry Belafonte, pioneering performer and activist, dies at 96

Belafonte’s calypso, the genre of Caribbean music that drew from West African and French influences, propelled him to fame

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