biography
| name: |
Makeba, Miriam
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originally Zenzile Makeba
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pronunciation:
[makayba]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1932– )
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| biography:
| Singer, born in Johannesburg, NE South Africa. Exiled from South Africa because of her political views, she settled in the USA, where she became the first African performer to gain an international following, and played a vital role in introducing the sounds and rhythms of traditional African song to the West. She is best known for her recordings of ‘click’ songs from S Africa. Her second marriage in the late 1960s to the militant black leader, Stokely Carmichael, effectively ended her career in the USA. She returned to South Africa following the downfall of apartheid. |
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