WASHINGTON (TND) — Archeologists in Peru have unearthed
what’s being described as a nearly 1,000-year-old child mummy.
The National University of San Marcos said the mummified
adolescent — who was approximately 12 or 13 year old when
he or she died — was discovered by a team of researchers
led by archaeologist Yomira Huamán (below).
Pictured: Professor Van Dalen Luna (right) with archaeologist
Yomira Huamán Santillán (left).
Harry Belafonte ( Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.)
(March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023)
Belafonte was a Jamaican-American singer, actor and activist,
who popularized calypso music with international audiences
in the 1950s. His 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)".
In 2022 Harry Belafonte was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category.
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Ella Jane Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996)
On April 25, 1917, jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport
News, Virginia.
Fitzgerald’s most famous collaborations were with the vocal
quartet Bill Kenny & the Ink Spots, trumpeter Louis Armstrong,
the guitarist Joe Pass, and the bandleaders Count Basie and
Duke Ellington.
