Stas Namin is a musician, a composer, producer, artist and photographer; he directs and produces theatre and cinema, is one of the founders of Russian rock music and show business, and behind numerous social and innovative projects.
Trudeau apologized, saying it was “a dumb thing to do,” though he admitted to additionally wearing blackface for a performance of Harry Belafonte’s “The Banana Boat Song” in high school. Soon afterward, more troubling footage surfaced with a video showing Trudeau in blackface and an ...
for the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and performed for the protesters alongside Harry Belafonte, Sammy Davis Jr., and others. Wives and Children Getty Images Susan Benedetto and Tony Bennett, seen here in 2019, were married in 2007. Bennett was married three times and had...
But Kidjo has never lost her African musical connections, the linkages of which are present in several traditionally-oriented pieces. The dramatic, call-like melody of “Zelie” was composed by Togo’s Bella Bellow, and sung by Kidjo with articulate, theatrical intensity. The lullaby “Lakutsn ...
"The Great Silence of Harry Gleeson," is a true biopic on Ireland's first posthumous pardon of a man hanged for murder 75 years ago, and who was recently exonerated by the President of Ireland. Gleeson was Miller's 107-year-old Grandmother's younger brother. "Loudmouth: The Odyssey of ...
She was also noticed by other folk singers, including Harry Belafonte (1927–), who offered her a job with his singing group. In the summer of 1959 Baez was invited to sing at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. This performance made her a star—especially to young people—and ...
Bob, Joan, Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary, Mahalia Jackson, Harry Belafonte and dozens of other performers who had been raising their voices to benefit the civil rights movement took part in the March on Washington on August 28th. Two hundred thousand demonstrators, black and white, filled the...
All I want to do is sing and make people happy. [In an interview the day before his TV show opened] Negroes have been exposed to many single appearances but have not been given a chance to do a regular show before now. I've been waging a personal campaign, aiming at a show of thi...
The organizers invited multiple celebrities to appear at the event, including actor Marlon Brando, actor and singer Lena Horne, musician Harry Belafonte, and performer Josephine Baker. They were among the estimated 250,000 people in attendance, far higher than the 100,000 people Rustin expected. ...
The following February, it was announced that Tidal was donating $1.5 million from concert proceeds to numerous organizations, including Black Lives Matter and Sankofa, a nonprofit started by Harry Belafonte. Marriage to Beyoncé Getty Images Jay-Z and Beyoncé attend the 2024 premiere of Mufasa...