Please note this is a region B Blu ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Harry Belafonte rose to fame in the 1950s as a singer & actor bringing the Caribbean sounds of calypso music to the charts years before anyone coined the phrase "world music" & starring in a handful of hit movies including Carmen Jones & Buck & the Preacher However for Belafonte fame & wealth were never as important as the opportunities they created for him to make the world a better & more just place & he&s nearly as well known for his work as an activist as for his career in the arts He marched with Martin Luther King Jr fought against apartheid in South Africa long before it was common spoke out for economic justice in America & abroad raised money for famine relief in Africa & condemned Joseph Mc Carthy&s communist witch hunt (and was blacklisted for his troubles) Filmmaker Susanne Rostock offers a portrait of Belafonte as an artist activist & individual in the documentary Sing Your Song in which he discusses his music & acting what drove him to become an activist the remarkable men & women he&s worked with over the decades & the triumphs & disappointments of his personal life SING YOUR SONG was an official selection at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival