American singer and actor. Born 1898, died 1976.
Paul Robeson gave the world the first experience of his amazing basso voice in 1925, singing negro spirituals, and was especially famed for his performance of the song "Ol' Man River" in the Hammerstein and Kern musical Show Boat.
As an actor, Robeson was internationally acclaimed for his interpretation of the title rôle in William Shakespeare's Othello.
Due to supposed communist sympathies, he was unable to find work in the United States, and lived most of his life abroad, chiefly in England.