Sing Your Song is a riveting documnetary that chronicles Harry Belafonte life in music and his humanitarian efforts beginning with the Civil Rights Movement. The actor, singer, activist talks about his upbringing in Harlerm and Jamaica, how he got into show business and what made him become activist he is today.
Sing Your Song is an up close look at a great American, Harry Belafonte. A patriot to the last and a champion for worldwide human rights, Belafonte is one of the truly heroic cultural and political figures of the past 60 years. Told from Harry’s point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theater and the magic of performing.
From there the film follows Belafonte’s rise from the jazz and folk clubs of Greenwich Village and Harlem to his emergence as a star. However, even as a superstar, the life of a black man in 1960s America was far from easy and Belafonte was confronted with the same Jim Crow laws and prejudices that every other black man, woman and child in America was facing.
Among other things, the film presents a brief look at the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of an insider, someone who despite his high profile, wasn’t afraid to spend time in the trenches.
The film will be screening in select cities across the U.S. starting January 13. check local show listings. Check out the movie trailer.
Sing Your Song official trailer from S2BN Films on Vimeo.
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