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Miriam Makeba

African music
World music
Jazz
A singer, actress and civil rights campaigner, Miriam Makeba was one of South Africa's most legendary performers, popularising her native music all over the world and so revered she became known as Mama Africa. Born in Johannesburg, her mother was a "Swazi sangoma" (herbal healer) whose imprisonment for selling home-made beer meant that Miriam spent the first six months of her life in jail. Her music career began in the early 1950s when she joined the jazz group Manhattan Brothers, leaving them for an all-female group The Skylarks mixing jazz with traditional South African songs....
Songs
Pata Pata
Pata Pata 

Mono Version

Miriam Makeba

Enregistrement Public Au Theatre Des Champs Elysees

3:00

Aluta Continua
Aluta ContinuaMiriam Makeba

Welela

4:49

I'mm You'mm We'mm
I'mm You'mm We'mm 

En public a Paris et Conakry

Miriam Makeba

Live In Paris

5:19

Malaika
Malaika 

Appel Radio Live

Miriam Makeba

4:23

Tula Ndiville
Tula NdivilleMiriam Makeba

South Africa's Skylark: Classic & Rarities

3:10

My Angel (Malaika)
My Angel (Malaika)Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba

An Evening with Belafont / Makeba

3:15

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