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The sounds of Africa are a little faded, softer and infinitely sadder. Our golden song bird has been silenced and no more will our world be filled with her beautiful songs. Taped recordings, CD’s, faded black and white films and recordings of live shows are all that remain of our caged song bird, Mama Africa -this great and wonderful soul of Africa. Miriam Makeba has died. And for all of us who knew her work and music, and who were privileged to know and love her will forever miss her. “Th

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Hugh Masekela - Home Is Where the Music Is (1972)

Released as a double LP on Chisa/Blue Thumb in 1972, Hugh Masekela's Home Is Where the Music Is marked an accessible but sharp detour from his more pop-oriented jazz records of the '60s. Masekela was chasing a different groove altogether. He was looking to create a very different kind of fusion, one that involved the rhythms and melodies of his native South Africa, and included the more spiritual, soul-driven explorations occurring in American music at the time on labels like Strata East, Tribe,

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Time to follow the example of Nashville?

Writing in last Friday's Daily Times (Malawi), Alec van Gelder and Mark Schultz ("My Point of View -Unchain Africa’s melodies") return to the sad if perpetually recurrent theme of music piracy in Africa.Right: Elvis -- a product of Nashville or a prototype for Africa?But, having done so, they point out that there is an entire business dimension to the music industry, and that most African nations do not understand this:" ... But piracy explains only part of the problem. Recording companies under

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5 000 pay tribute to Miriam Makeba

JOHANNESBURG (The Times) - Miriam Makeba’s life was celebrated by more than 5 000 fans and family members at a memorial service at The Dome in Johannesburg Saturday. Many of South Africa’s more well-known faces were there to pay tribute to the 76-year-old songstress, who died of a heart attack in Italy on Monday night after performing at a concert for an Italian writer who took a stand against the Mafia. Among those at the service were deputy president Baleka Mbete, former president Thabo Mbe

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Hugh Masekela Blows Last Trumpet For Miriam Makeba

Johannesburg - A trumpet wailed and poetry soared on Saturday as South Africans remembered "Mama Afrika," Miriam Makeba, for her music and her commitment to human rights.The memorial service after Makeba's death on Monday at the age of 76 followed two days of national mourning, with flags at half staff and books of condolences at the presidency and Parliament - honours due a woman seen as an ambassador for the best values of her country, her continent and the world. Makeba's celebrity and grace

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South Africa pays tribute to `Mama Africa' Makeba

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A trumpet wailed and poetry soared Saturday as South Africans remembered "Mama Africa," Miriam Makeba, for her music and her commitment to human rights. The memorial service after Makeba's death Monday at the age of 76 followed two days of national mourning, with flags at half staff and books of condolences at the presidency and parliament — honors due a woman seen as an ambassador for the best values of her country, her continent and the world. Makeba's celebrity

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Mama Afrika

Miriam Makeba, “Mama Afrika”, passed away this week, at the age of 76.  She died as most performers would hope to die–after performing a concert, in Italy.  She was performing in honor of Roberto Saviano, an author who has received death threats after writing about organized crime. She, with fellow musicians Hugh Masekela, Letta Mbulu, Caiphus Semanya, and Jonas Gwangwa, were exiled from South Africa.  Miriam, with her then husband Hugh Masekela, found their way to the U.S. with the help of thei

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Miriam Zenzi Makeba, b: 4 Mar 1932; d: 10 Nov 2008

November 12, 2008 at 10:48 pm (Anti-Racism, Human rights, Jim D, good people, liberation, music, strange situations) She was “Mama Afrika” and “the mother of our struggle” and “South Africa’s first lady of song” , said Nelson Mandela. She was also a great performer, who died after collapsing on stage in Naples, singing against injustice right to the end. You can see her perform her hit “the Click Song” here: Miriam was a strong supporter of the ANC and, for many years,

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Mama Afrika repose en paix

Mama Afrika repose en paix 12.11.08 Miriam Makeba is African music’s first and foremost world star. She is a pioneer who played her early songs and blended different styles long before anyone even began to talk about “world music”. Her disk production is spread across many companies all over the world - so far and wide that it’s difficult to get a panoramic view of it. But no collection of African music should be without one or more of Miriam Makeba’s recordings. Born in Johannesburg

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Miriam Makeba, legendary South African folk singer, is dead

Her haunting melodies gave voice to the pain of exile and dislocation which she felt for 31 long years. At the same time, her music inspired a powerful sense of hope in all of us.  (Former South African president Nelson Mandela) I must confess that I knew so little about Miriam Makeba’s music that when I heard a CNN reporter say “legendary folk singer dies performing, stay tuned for details”, I thought he was referring to Joan Baez.  In fact, I knew Makeba mostly from her association with two

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Miriam Makeba RIP

Miriam Makeba - “Mama Africa” “Listen - Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata - MP3″ Greetings all. I wasn’t expecting to do a midweek post*, but I heard the news of yet another important passing (no less that the ninth reported here in the last few months), and could not let it go by without taking note. The group of musical émigrés that came to the US from South Africa in the 1960s, including Hugh Masekela, Letta Mbulu, Caiphus Semanya, and Jonas Gwangwa has always held a fascination for me. They all m

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South African musical legend Miriam Makeba dies

She died just how she wanted to — singing on stage for a good cause. And her recorded songs wafted out of taxis and radios, as fellow Africans struggled with their grief at her passing. Miriam Makeba, the “Mama Africa” whose sultry voice gave South Africans hope when the country was gripped by apartheid, died Monday of a heart attack after collapsing on stage in Italy. She was 76. In her dazzling career, Makeba performed with musical legends from around the world — jazz maestros Nina Simon

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Goodbye Miriam Makeba, Mama Afrika

Folk singer, Miriam Makeba, died at age 76 early Monday in Southern Italy after a performing at a concert against organised crime and racism. Spokespeople from the Emergency Room at Pineta Grande Clinic, A private facility at Castel Volturno confirmed that she was brought there from the concert. ANSA news reported that she succumbed to a heart attack 30 minutes after the show, in which she showed solidarity toward Italian journalist Roberto Saviano, who had received death threats following on

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R.I.P. Miriam Makeba

I heard about Miriam Makeba’s passing on the radio this morning but only now do I have a chance to post my respects. My mother loved her (and Hugh Masekela), and we got to see her years back at the Berklee Performing Arts Center in Boston before my mom passed. Every time I hear Makeba, I think of moms. I hope they are both enjoying well-deserved rest and celebration beyond this world.

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'Mama Afrika' : Singer Miriam Makeba Dies at 76

'Mama Afrika' : Singer Miriam Makeba Dies at 76 Miriam Makeba performed in a concert on Sunday night in southern Italy shortly before she died early Monday. Photo by Cesare Abbate / European Pressphoto Agency. Jacob Zuma: 'Miriam Makeba used her voice, not merely to entertain, but to give a voice to the millions of oppressed South Africans under the yoke of apartheid.' By Alan Cowell / November 10, 2008 Miriam Makeba: Swimming Freestyle. Video Below.LONDON — Miriam Makeba, a South African

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Miriam Makeba dies after collapsing on stage

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) – Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned from her own country for more than 30 years under apartheid, died after collapsing on stage in Italy. She was 76. In her dazzling career, Makeba performed with musical legends from around the world — jazz maestros Nina Simone and Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon — and sang for world leaders such as John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela. “Her haunting melo

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RIP Miriam Makeba

RIP Miriam Makeba Live version of “Pata Pata“ South African singer Miriam Makeba died yesterday while touring in Italy. She was 76 and best-known for being a vocal anti-apartheid activist, her 1967 song “Pata Pata“[1][2] and her marriages to fellow country trumpeter Hugh Masekela and American “Black pride“/”Black Power” activist Stokely Carmichael. “Pata Pata” is a musical composition recorded by South African singer Miriam Makeba and released in 1967 on Reprise Records. “Pata Pata” was co-wri

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Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba Monday, November 10 2008 @ 07:24 EST Contributed by: Stranger Views: 34 'Mama Africa' has passed on. Miriam Makeba, a South African singer whose voice stirred hopes of freedom among millions in her own country though her music was formally banned by the apartheid authorities she struggled against, died overnight after performing at a concert in Italy on Sunday. She was 76. [...] For 31 years, Ms. Makeba lived in exile, variously in the United States, France, Guinea an

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R.I.P. Miriam Makeba

The music world suffers a great loss today in the passing of singer and high-profile exile Miriam Makeba. The former wife of legendary South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela and activist Stokely Carmichael, Makeba was both a great voice and a great cultural icon. Check out video and news of Nelson Mandela’s tribute to Makeba here.

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Death Notice: Miriam Makeba

The sad news from Italy is that singer Miriam Makeba collapsed from a heart attack while performing on Sunday in an anti-Camorra concert in Castel Voltuno, in Campania, and passed away a short time later. She was 76. "Mama Afrika" was a discovery (of sorts) of Harry Belafonte, who had seen her in the pseudo documentary COME BACK, AFRICA (1959) and helped her gain a foothold on the American music charts by securing her New York club gigs and a spot on THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW. A vocal opponent of

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