Zenzile Miriam Makeba

by Anthony Mwangi

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Zenzile Miriam Makeba

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Anthony Mwangi

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Digital Art - Digital Illustration

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Zenzile Miriam Makeba, nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and government in South Africa.

The daughter of a Swazi mother and a Xhosa father, Makeba grew up in Sophiatown, a segregated Black township outside of Johannesburg and began singing in a school choir at an early age. She became a professional vocalist in 1954, performing primarily in southern Africa. By the late 1950s her singing and recording had made her well known in South Africa, and her appearance in the documentary film Come Back, Africa (1959) attracted the interest of Harry Belafonte and other American performers.
In 1965 she and Belafonte won a Grammy Award for best folk recording for their album An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba.

Among the songs for which she was internationally known were “Pata Pata” and one known as the “Click Song” in English (“Qongqothwane” in Xhosa); both featured the distinctive click sounds of her native Xhosa language. Makeba made 30 original albums, in addition to 19 compilation albums and appearances on the recordings of several other musicians.

I have not scratched an inch of her long history in the music industry. The space allocated to me on FAA forum can not allow me to fit the story of MAMA AFRICA. I invite all to read the story of Zenzile Miriam Makeba on the various sources on the World Wide Web. What a LEGEND!!

Born: 4 March 1932, Johannesburg, South Africa
Died: 9 November 2008, Castel Volturno, Italy

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November 16th, 2022

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