Margaret Tynes and Harry Belafonte. Chicago, June 1956.
Chicago, Illinois, USA- 6/1/1956: Harry Belafonte and Margaret Tynes, his costar in "Sing Man Sing". Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
The beautiful lady in the photo with Harry Belafonte is my aunt Margaret Tynes and I am writing a book about her called A Diva in the Family.
http://anovelista.blogspot.com/2006/07/diva-in-family.html
She had a phenomenal international career as a singer in opera, jazz and theater for over fifty years. A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University (BA 1939) and Columbia University (MA 1944), she starred as Harry Belafonte's leading lady off-Broadway in a show he produced called Sing Man, Sing! She also recorded a jazz suite called A Drum is a Woman with Duke Ellington and made several appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. In 1961, she gained international acclaim as Salome at the Spoleto Festival of the Two Worlds in Italy, where she lived for more than forty years.
