Miriam Makeba
Singer born in Johannesburg in 1932, who came up through the Manhattan Brothers and the Skylarks and took the female lead in the jazz opera King Kong. South Africa cancelled her passport in 1960 while she was abroad, and she spent thirty years in exile, testifying against apartheid at the United Nations. She returned in 1990 and died in Italy in 2008.
Connections
is associated with
- King Kong (1959) female lead
- Sharpeville massacre (1960) her passport was cancelled in the aftermath
was born in
- Johannesburg (1932)
worked with
- Hugh Masekela (1964) married from 1964 to 1966, and musical partners for far longer
lived in
- New York City (1959) she arrived in November 1959
was a member of
- The Manhattan Brothers (1954) 1954 to 1957
- The Skylarks
performed
- Pata Pata (1967) the American recording
- Soweto Blues (1977) Masekela wrote it, she sang it
wrote
- Pata Pata credited with Jerry Ragovoy, over an earlier melody
Read more on Cape Town Data
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