Broadway Stars BROADWAYSTARS

Hideously diverse Britain: The man who would be Robeson

by Hugh Muir

Paul Robeson, the actor, singer and civil rights legend, is just the kind of role model we need todayIt's some career change, I say to Tayo Aluko. Certainly he wasn't expecting things to turn out this way. One minute he was singing in his garden, the next he was catapulted in a new direction. "Somebody said I sounded like Paul Robeson. I said, Paul who? But I was fascinated. I went and found a biography in December …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:00am on February 2, 2011