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The Cy Grant Website
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As an actor I voiced the puppet character Lieutenant Green in Gerry Anderson’s sci-fi series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons! This is all good schoolboy stuff – an allegorical tale of the forces of good over evil at a time when our world was under threat of nuclear warfare. School children have followed the series over three decades now and have been impressed when they discovered my role as Lt. Green. That actor, Donald Gray, a charming man no doubt, had a sticker on his car with the words ‘Sup...
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MUSIC OF THE SPHERES : The Cy Grant Website
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Music of the Spheres -. Pan as Cosmic Symbol. Ring of Steel, pan sound and symbol. At the end of the 1939-45 war, American forces had left discarded oil canisters on the islands and in a remarkably short period of time, these had been transformed into finely tuned melodic and harmonic instruments. These were to become a symbol of the unity in the diversity so characteristic of the Caribbean territories. As a system of tuning in which the notes furthest from the fundamental “are severely out of tune...
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Cy Grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 13 February 2010 ( 2010-02-13. Actor, musician, writer, poet. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. 8 November 1919 13 February 2010). Actor, musician, writer and poet. In the 1950s, he became the first black person to be featured regularly on television in the United Kingdom. Mostly due to his appearances on the BBC current affairs show Tonight. Following service in the Royal Air Force. During the Second World War. Grant was made an Honorary Fellow. In 1941, Grant joi...
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Ldquo;The undiscovered vein within us is a living part of the psyche: classical Chinese philosophy named this the interior way “Tao”, and likens it to a flow of water that moves irresistibly towards its goal. To rest in Tao fulfilment, wholeness, one’s destination reached, one’s mission done, the beginning, end, and perfect realisation of the meaning of existence innate in all things”. CGJung: Collected Works, The Development of Personality. The ultimate answers to existence are not to be found in intell...
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The Cy Grant Website
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All are welcome to a celebration of the life of Guyanese born Cy Grant, a RAF WWII Navigator who survived a Nazi Prison of War camp to become a lawyer, actor, singer/song-writer, broadcaster, author, multi-cultural arts director, and a community activist. Come along and hear a calypso in his honour by Alexander D. Great and a Presentation by Professor Gus John. Join the discussion led by Arthur Torrington. Saturday 23rd July 2016. 330pm to 5.30pm. Bernie Grant Arts Centre. Download the event PDF. London ...
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WAR MEMOIR : The Cy Grant Website
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A Member of the RAF of Indeterminate Race -. ISBN 1-84683-018-4 - Woodfield Publishing, 2006. The title of the book is taken from a caption below a picture of Cy in the German Newspaper,. Ein Mitglied der Royal Air Force von unbestimmbarer Rasse. Rdquo; Presumably this was meant as a propaganda exercise for Nazi Master Race doctrine, implying that the RAF had to resort to the recruitment of people of unknown or ‘indeterminate’ race to fight their wars for them. Bomber, he was shot down over. Flew as Air ...
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The website Caribbean aircrew in the RAF during WW2. Aims to provide a permanent archive of volunteers from the West Indies who flew for the RAF but whose contribution has been generally overlooked. It is the initiative of Cy Grant and Hans Klootwijk, the son of Joost Klootwijk. Lancaster W4827: failed to return. Http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2009/05/11/kurt online aircrew feature.shtml.
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RETURN TO MY NATIVE LAND : The Cy Grant Website
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CAHIER D'UN RETOUR AU PAYS NATAL. Negritude was a revolt against colonial values - glorifying the African past and praising the traditional communal values of harmony based on intuition, caring and emotion - the 'dark senses' in other words, that seem more real than Western values based purely on reason and logic. It was a ‘state of total belonging’, beyond division and separation from Mother Earth. My negritude is not a stone. Nor deafness flung out against the clamour of the day. Of his forefathers....
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ABOUT CY GRANT : The Cy Grant Website
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Cy Grant has lived an extraordinarily varied life. He served as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force during the second World War, was shot down and spent two years as a prisoner of war. After the war he qualified as a Barrister at Law, but went on to be an actor on stage and in film, as well as a singer in concert and cabaret. His was the first black face to be regularly seen on British Television, singing the news on television on the BBC TONIGHT. An Oral History Project housed at the. In 1976 Dru...