Montreal - Belafonte appeared at "Sing Your Song" screening

Sing Your Song
A film by Susanne Rostock


was screened on Thursday September 20, 7pm at Concordia University as a special feature of the Montreal International Black Film Festival 


This biopic was followed by a Q&A with HARRY BELAFONTE

March on Washington, DC for Civil Rights, 1963: James Baldwin

with Julie and Harry Belafonte on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

From the Jack T. FranklinPhotography Collection of the African American Museum in

Philadelphia.

HE’D had no singing lessons and he couldn’t read a note. But Harry Belafonte was what they call a natural, plucked from obscurity to stardom thanks to a lucky break at a New York jazz club.

At the time he was a struggling actor and his phenomenal success as a singer soon fed into Hollywood and Broadway. Blessed with charm and good looks, by the 1960s he was a top American entertainer, living the highlife in Las Vegas and rubbing shoulders with the Rat Pack.

Like all good stories this one has a twist. Belafonte was also a man on a mission, using his fame and fortune to support the forward march of civil rights

HARRY BELAFONTE: Star who was on a mission to use fame to push civil rights movement