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RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
I first heard Miriam Makeba perform on a Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall record my parents had growing up. While I never agreed with Belafonte's radical leftist beliefs, I did enjoy his music and the music of his guests, and often play those records (I also have them on cd) today. Mikeba decried (and rightfully so) the apartheid of South Africa. Her honorary title was "Mama Africa." One of the songs Makeba performed with Belafonte on his famous album was "The Click Song."

Artist: Miriam Makeba
Album: Miriam Makeba
Song: "The Click Song"
11 May 1960 RCA Victor Records and Gallo Africa records









Song: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight (African)"





Artist: Lebo M
Song: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
Video: The Beauty of Africa





Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer and civil rights activist.

In the 1960s, she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world. She is best known for the song "Pata Pata", first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967. She recorded and toured with many popular artists, such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela.

Makeba campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. The South African government responded by revoking her passport in 1960 and her citizenship and right of return in 1963. As the apartheid system crumbled she returned home for the first time in 1990.

Makeba died of a heart attack on 9 November 2008 after performing in a concert in Italy organised to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the region of Campania.
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RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?) - GoodOwl - 03-12-2016 01:05 AM
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