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Published in 38^th IRAWMA Magazine

Harry Belafonte is a singer songwriter, activist, humanitarian and actor. As one of the most successful Jamaican-American pop stars in history, he was dubbed the King of Calypso in the 1950s. His breakthrough album “Calypso” (1956) is the first million selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte is known for his recording of “The Banana Boat Song” with its signature lyric “Day-O”. He has recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes and American standards. He also starred in several films including Otto Preminger’s hit musical “Carmen Jones” (1954). “Island in the Sun” (1957), and Robert Wise’s “Odds Against Tomorrow” (1959)

Belafonte was an early supporter of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s and was a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. Throughout his career, he has been an advocate for political and humanitarian causes such as, the Anti-Apartheid Movement and USA for Africa. Since 1987, he has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Belafonte acts as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues.

Belafonte has won Grammy Awards including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitaran Award at the Academy’s 6^th Annual Governors Awards

Belafonte gave the keynote address at the ACLU of Northern California’s annual Bill of Rights Day Celebratio in December 2007 and was awarded the Chief Justice Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award. The 2011 Sundance Song, a biographical film focusing on Belfonte’s contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and heendeavors to promote social justice globally. In 2011, Belafonte’s memoir “ My Song” was published by Knopf Books.

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IRAWMA SPECIAL FREEDOM FIGHTER AWARDEE

Published in 38th IRAWMA Magazine Harry Belafonte is a singer songwriter, activist, humanitarian and actor. As one of the most successful Jamaican-American pop stars in history, he was dubbed the King of Calypso in the 1950s. His breakthrough album “Calypso” (1956) is the first million selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte is known for his recording of “The Banana Boat Song” with its signature lyric “Day-O”. He has recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes

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January 18, 2022

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Joseph Bogdanovich IRAWMA Philanthropist Award

Published in the 39th edition of the IRAWMA Magazine Los Angeles Native, Josef Bogdanovich began visiting Jamaica in the early 1990s before settling in Kingston in 1999. He started his Acid Jazz record label in 1992 ; a year later he founded Downsound Records and released music from an eclectic array of reggae and dancehall artists. The entrepreneur is a KLE Group shareholder, which operates Usain Bolt’s Tracks & Records, the popular Sports bar/restaurant co-owned by the celebrated Olympian. In 2016,

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January 18, 2022

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DR EPHRAIM MARTIN – THE UNSTOPPABLE FORCE BEHIND IRAWMA

Dr Ephraim Martin, a 65-year-old native of St Thomas, Jamaica, is best known as founder of the International Reggae and World and Music Awards (IRAWMA), and the Chicago Music Awards (CMA), which are just two of the many events that he has founded, and charted the course for, since 1980. In-fact on October 2, 2016, at the conclusion of the 35th IRAWMA, and his 100th annual entertainment event, set a world record as the only known person alive to have

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