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Mirriam Makeba, Mother Africa.
Information provided by William Dillard
My notes: I attended one of her concerts at the University of Dayton and was mesmerized by her performance. Her death was a very sad occasion. One of my favorites was the "Click Song". The Song was sung in her native language which is Xhosa.
I ended the video collection with "N'Kosi Sikeleli", the South African National anthem. On the stage singing with Miriam is Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
This day Women in History: Mirriam Makeba, "Mother Africa"
On this date in 1932, Mirriam Makeba was born. She was a South African singer, entertainer, and activist.
From Prospect, South Africa, throughout her life and singing career, Miriam Zenzi Makeba has used her voice to draw the attention of the world to the music of South Africa and to its oppressive system of racial separation, apartheid. For eight years she attended the Kilmerton Training School in Pretoria, where she sang in the school choir. During her teenage years, Makeba helped her mother with the domestic work she did for white families.
She also pursued singing and, in 1950, joined an amateur Johannesburg group called the Cuban Brothers. In 1954, a successful professional South African group, the Black Manhattan Brothers, noticed her. Eventually she left with the group in 1957 to become a member of a touring revue show, African Jazz and Variety. With her appearance in the semi-documentary anti apartheid film Come Back, Africa 1959, Makeba drew the attention of international audiences. That same year, Makeba traveled to London where she met African-American performer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, who had requested a private screening of the film.
Belafonte became her sponsor and promoter in the United States. Through him, she appeared on the Steve Allen Show, which led to nightclubs around New York City and recordings of South Africa music. Some songs became hits in the United States, including Patha Patha, Malaika, and The Click Song. Her music also contained a political component, the denunciation of apartheid, which earned Makeba the hostility of the South African government, who revoked her passport when she attempted to return for her mother’s funeral in 1960. Makeba pressed on and, in 1963, she addressed a United Nations special committee on apartheid, characterizing South Africa as "a nightmare of police brutality and government terrorism."
Her marriage to African-American civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael (now Kwame Ture) derailed her career in the United States. The entertainment industry virtually blacklisted Makeba. According to one account, her record company never called her in to record again after the marriage. She and Carmichael eventually moved to Guinea in West Africa. Makeba’s career continued outside of the United States, however, during the 1970s and 1980s she toured Europe, South America, and Africa appearing regularly at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Berlin Jazz Festival, and the Northsea Jazz Festival.
In 1977 she traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, to serve as the unofficial South African representative at Festac, a Pan-African festival of arts and culture. In 1982 "Mother Africa," as she was known, reunited with South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, to whom Makeba was married from 1964 to 1966. Continuing her activism, in 1975, she served a term as a United Nations delegate from Guinea. In addition, she was awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld Peace Prize in 1986. In 1987, Makeba performed on Paul Simon’s Graceland tour. She finally returned to South Africa in 1990.
In 1991, she released Eyes on Tomorrow and, that same year, Makeba gave her first live performance in South Africa since her departure more than 30 years earlier. She has continued to record and tour.
In November, 2008, South Africa’s top female singer Mirriam Makeba died after being taken ill near the Southern Italian town of Caserta following a concert.
Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata
Miriam Makeba sings her most famous song Pata Pata during a performance in the Dutch TV-studios in Hilversum, september 1979. Joining her on stage towards the end of the song is her granddaughter Zenzi. Zenzi's mother, Bongi Makeba, is one of the backing vocalists (in the blue dress).
MIRIAM MAKEBA - "Malaika" - Original 1974 single with Swahili and English Lyrics.
Miriam Makeba - Mas Que Nada
miriam makeba - kilimanjaro
Miriam Makeba - A Luta Continua
Miriam Makeba et Harry Belafonte (1966)
Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba - Malaika
Harry Belafonte -My angel (malaika)- with Miriam Makeba
Uploaded on Nov 11, 2008
the tokens are not will never be the creator of our african rythm never..this is a south african song a zulu song called mbube (lion)...it has been sung for centuries in south africa and firstly recorded by linda solomon...we talk about a lion sleeping but it just deeper than you guy think when a king dies we say in africa that he sleeps and when shacka died they sang it to tell the people that the lion is sleeping ..i yu m'bube =you are the lion...chacka you can't die you certainly sleeping..they stole it and don't have the honesty to say where they took it..damn it
"the lion sleeps tonight"a real original african version
Miriam Makeba - The Click Song (Distinct Version)
N'Kosi Sikeleli (Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Paul Simon)
Information provided by William Dillard
My notes: I attended one of her concerts at the University of Dayton and was mesmerized by her performance. Her death was a very sad occasion. One of my favorites was the "Click Song". The Song was sung in her native language which is Xhosa.
I ended the video collection with "N'Kosi Sikeleli", the South African National anthem. On the stage singing with Miriam is Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
This day Women in History: Mirriam Makeba, "Mother Africa"
On this date in 1932, Mirriam Makeba was born. She was a South African singer, entertainer, and activist.
From Prospect, South Africa, throughout her life and singing career, Miriam Zenzi Makeba has used her voice to draw the attention of the world to the music of South Africa and to its oppressive system of racial separation, apartheid. For eight years she attended the Kilmerton Training School in Pretoria, where she sang in the school choir. During her teenage years, Makeba helped her mother with the domestic work she did for white families.
Belafonte became her sponsor and promoter in the United States. Through him, she appeared on the Steve Allen Show, which led to nightclubs around New York City and recordings of South Africa music. Some songs became hits in the United States, including Patha Patha, Malaika, and The Click Song. Her music also contained a political component, the denunciation of apartheid, which earned Makeba the hostility of the South African government, who revoked her passport when she attempted to return for her mother’s funeral in 1960. Makeba pressed on and, in 1963, she addressed a United Nations special committee on apartheid, characterizing South Africa as "a nightmare of police brutality and government terrorism."
Her marriage to African-American civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael (now Kwame Ture) derailed her career in the United States. The entertainment industry virtually blacklisted Makeba. According to one account, her record company never called her in to record again after the marriage. She and Carmichael eventually moved to Guinea in West Africa. Makeba’s career continued outside of the United States, however, during the 1970s and 1980s she toured Europe, South America, and Africa appearing regularly at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Berlin Jazz Festival, and the Northsea Jazz Festival.
In 1977 she traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, to serve as the unofficial South African representative at Festac, a Pan-African festival of arts and culture. In 1982 "Mother Africa," as she was known, reunited with South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, to whom Makeba was married from 1964 to 1966. Continuing her activism, in 1975, she served a term as a United Nations delegate from Guinea. In addition, she was awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld Peace Prize in 1986. In 1987, Makeba performed on Paul Simon’s Graceland tour. She finally returned to South Africa in 1990.
In 1991, she released Eyes on Tomorrow and, that same year, Makeba gave her first live performance in South Africa since her departure more than 30 years earlier. She has continued to record and tour.
In November, 2008, South Africa’s top female singer Mirriam Makeba died after being taken ill near the Southern Italian town of Caserta following a concert.
Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata
Miriam Makeba sings her most famous song Pata Pata during a performance in the Dutch TV-studios in Hilversum, september 1979. Joining her on stage towards the end of the song is her granddaughter Zenzi. Zenzi's mother, Bongi Makeba, is one of the backing vocalists (in the blue dress).
MIRIAM MAKEBA - "Malaika" - Original 1974 single with Swahili and English Lyrics.
Miriam Makeba - Mas Que Nada
miriam makeba - kilimanjaro
Miriam Makeba - A Luta Continua
Miriam Makeba et Harry Belafonte (1966)
Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba - Malaika
Harry Belafonte -My angel (malaika)- with Miriam Makeba
Uploaded on Nov 11, 2008
the tokens are not will never be the creator of our african rythm never..this is a south african song a zulu song called mbube (lion)...it has been sung for centuries in south africa and firstly recorded by linda solomon...we talk about a lion sleeping but it just deeper than you guy think when a king dies we say in africa that he sleeps and when shacka died they sang it to tell the people that the lion is sleeping ..i yu m'bube =you are the lion...chacka you can't die you certainly sleeping..they stole it and don't have the honesty to say where they took it..damn it
"the lion sleeps tonight"a real original african version
Miriam Makeba - The Click Song (Distinct Version)
N'Kosi Sikeleli (Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Paul Simon)
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