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Front Row: Harry Belafonte at 85

Harry Belafonte at 85

04/06/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Harry Belafonte at 85

Kirsty Lang meets the singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte, who is now 85.

Kirsty Lang interviews the singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte, who celebrated his 85th birthday this year.

From life as the child of a single, immigrant mother in New York to international music sensation, civil rights activist and Martin Luther King's right hand man - Harry Belafonte's life would be fascinating on these grounds alone. However Belafonte was also involved with the African independence movement, and he began his professional music career as a singer for Charlie Parker's band. As his new memoir My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race and Defiance, is published, he talks to Kirsty Lang about some of the milestones in his eventful life.

Producer Ekene Akalawu.

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