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Cy Grant
Cy Grant (8 November 1919 – 13 February 2010)〔(Obituary ), ''Daily Telegraph'' (London), 15 February 2010〕 was a Guyanese actor, musician, writer and poet. In the 1950s, he became the first black person to be featured regularly on television in the United Kingdom,〔(Cy Grant: Actor, Singer and Writer ), ''The Times'' (London), 16 February 2010.〕〔Gus John, (Cy Grant obituary ), ''The Guardian'' (London), 18 February 2010.〕〔Kurt Barling, ("Cy Grant: Pioneer for black British actors" (obituary) ), ''The Independent'' (London), 27 February 2010.〕 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 worked as an actor and singer, before establishing the Drum Arts Centre in the 1970s. In the 1980s, he was appointed director of Concord Multicultural Festivals. A published poet and author of several books, including his 2007 memoir ''Blackness and the Dreaming Soul'', Grant was made an Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University in 1997, and a member of the Scientific and Medical Network in 2001. In 2008, he assisted in the founding of an online archive to trace and commemorate Caribbean airmen of the Second World War.
A father of four children, Grant lived with his wife, Dorith, in Highgate, London.
==Early life==
Grant was born in the village of Beterverwagting, Demerara, British Guiana (modern-day Guyana), one of seven children in a close-knit middle-class family. His father was a Moravian minister and his mother a music teacher originally from Antigua. At the age of 11, he moved with his family to New Amsterdam, Berbice. After leaving high school, Grant worked as a clerk in the office of a stipendiary magistrate but was unable to study law overseas due to a lack of funds.
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