Tiger Haynes

Tiger Haynes entertained audiences in at least four distinct forms of entertainment, starting out in sports as a prize fighter before becoming a musician and singer, overlapping with a career on-stage, then working as an actor on the television and movie screens. He was still going strong in the '90s, the decade in which his truly feline drive was stopped cold by a cardiac arrest. The director Spike Lee utilized Haynes as a character actor in the 1991 Jungle Fever, more than half a century after Haynes began gigging on guitar with the Three Dandies. If Haynes was to be remembe...