Malena Belafonte is a singer, dancer, producer, model, writer and entrepreneur based in NY. She started her modeling career in Paris with famed Danish Photographer Gunnar Larsen.  Signed to Wilhelmina Models in NY Malena worked for the likes of Elle, Vogue, Bazaar, Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, Manolo Blahnik and Lancome. She appeared in numerous commercials, music videos, TV series, talk shows and movies and established multiply companies.  

Malena spent most of her childhood performing with her parents, professor at the Royal Music Conservatory, Irmgard Knopf Mathiesen and composer and conductor of Concentus Musicus Aksel H. Mathiesen whom she also recorded with. She has worked with artists like Kool and the Gang, Carole King, Jean Beauvoir, Harry Belafonte and Ulrik Cold. She was signed with Sony Records, Edel Records, represented by the William Morris agency and had a publishing contract with Warner/Chappell. She co-founded the Magazine Top Model, wrote a weekly column and had her first nationally published story as a teenager. She released several records and toured with her band Wilhelmina as well as others. Malena Belafonte continued her full time modeling career doing shows and campaigns all over the world but when others met up for drinks after a shoot or a show, Malena felt the need to establish a production company that could take advantage of all the experience and relationships she was developing. She started a production company doing documentaries, writing stories, and consulted where ever she ended up and when she had a free moment. This need to always be on the go, create new projects and find a new way to fill a void, is apparent in everything Malena Belafonte puts her stamp on. During her first pregnancy she created a cosmetics company, during her second pregnancy she released a Perfume benefiting The Refugee Foundation.