Belafonte is at the Sundance Film Festival this week with a new documentary, “Sing Your Song,” that tells of his life from being born in Harlem and raised in Jamaica to becoming a star singer of the 1950s and ’60s with hits such as “Banana Boat Song,” also known as “Day-O.”

But what the nonfiction film focuses on — and what Belafonte thinks may be lost on some people, especially younger generations — is the work he and others did to advance civil rights and justice in the United States and around the world.

The movie’s title comes from something African-American singer Paul Robeson told Belafonte when he was a young man: “Get them to sing your song, and they will know who you are.”

Asked what he believed his song was, at 83, Belafonte’s answer was: “The same melody. It just needs to be sung again. What it needs are more voices of harmony. It’s a beautiful chord that everybody gets to sing in the same place at the same time with the same purpose. The song is the same: justice.”

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