HARRY BELAFONTE | SINGER | $28 MILLION

Harry Belafonte is an American musician, actor, promoter, and activist. He has been one of the most prominent figures in the Caribbean folk song genre known as calypsos in the 1950’s. From then on, he became famous as the “The King of the Calypso.” Belafonte also participated in other social movements, including the campaign for civil rights. His estimated net worth is $28 million. Born in Harlem to first-generation Jamaican immigrants, Belafonte returned to Jamaica with his mother due to severe poverty in the state and moved back when he was 13 years old.

After dropping out of military school, Belafonte pursued his passion for music and acting at the Actors Studio, The American Negro Theater, and Erwin Piscator’s Dramatic Workshop at the New School for Social Research. His credit score sky-rocketed when he made his debut on Broadway in a John Murray Anderson Musical, which earned him a Tony Award.