Josh White Jr. is 82 years old today.
White is a songwriter, musician, actor and artist, and one of five children of Josh White, the famed singer.
Josh White, Jr., became, a “hit” overnight at the age of four, by performing with his legendary father one night at New York's Café Society night club, America's first integrated nightclub. For the next five years, Josh, Jr. performed with his father from New York to Boston to Philadelphia.
In 1949, Josh, Jr. landed his first role on Broadway, and as Josh says, "It was type casting…” White played his father's son in How Long Til Summer? with Dorothy Gish and Don Hanmer.
While continuing a solo acting career, Josh went on to perform and record with his father for the next seventeen years on radio, television, Broadway, concert halls and nightclubs around the world.
White continues to perform today.