John Legend to Play Musician Harry Belafonte in Bill Condon's Apartheid-Era Drama THE ROAD HOME

John Legend to Play Musician Harry Belafonte in Bill Condon's Apartheid-Era Drama THE ROAD HOME

EGOT-winner John Legend is set to star in The Road Home, a film about South African jazz legends Hugh Masekela and Miriam “Mama Africa” Makeba, and their Apartheid-era Graceland tour with Paul Simon. Legend will portray American singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.The Road Home follows as renowned trumpeter Masekela (award-winning South African star Thabo Rametsi) is pulled between two worlds. In the late 1980s, the anti-Apar…

John Legend to play Harry Belafonte in ‘The Road Home’

(Left) John Legend arrives at The 88th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 28, 2016. Credit/Provider: Aaron Poole / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S. (Right) Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient Harry Belafonte during the 2014 Governors Awards in The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, CA, on Saturday, November 8, 2014. Credit/Provider: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©…