On November 8th, the British High Commission celebrated the 100th birth anniversary of Cy Grant at a function hosted at the High Commis-sioner’s Residence in Bel Air Gardens.
Born in Beter-verwagting in then British Guiana on 08 November 1919, a release from the British High Commission said that Cy joined the Royal Air Force in 1941 and was commissioned as an Officer and Navigator on Lancaster bombers. He was shot down over the Netherlands in June 1943 and was held as a prisoner of war for two years.
After the war Cy qualified as a Barrister and pursued a successful singing and acting career appearing in a variety of films and TV shows, the release said. He was the first man of African descent to make regular appearances on British TV.
