Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba – The World of Miriam Makeba (1963/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Album by “Mama Africa”, the 1960s artist and activist who brought African music to the west.

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Miriam Makeba – The Voice Of Africa (1964/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Throughout her time as a concert singer in 1960s America Miriam Makeba was promoted as the embodied voice of a sonic, imagined Africa. Where her white audiences were attracted to the complete „otherness“ of her African blackness, her black American audiences saw themselves – or imagined versions of themselves – put on stage, and built solidarities between their own struggle and the struggle against apartheid.

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Miriam Makeba – The Magic Of Makeba (1965/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Miriam Makeba’s sixth and final RCA Victor album largely abandoned the South African focus of her earlier recordings (particularly her most recent release, the joint LP An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba, which was devoted to songs in South African tribal languages) for a collection of mainstream pop on which she was backed by an orchestra conducted by Sid Bass.

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Miriam Makeba – The Best Of (1968/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The “Best Of” compilation of Miriam Makeba, famous for bringing African music to the west in the 1960s and 1970s. This compilation of the earlier tracks are a nice blend of South African folk music with American jazz, pop, and even doo wop-influenced songwriting, arrangements, and harmonies.

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Miriam Makeba – Miriam Makeba (1960/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Zenzile Miriam Makeba, nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, actor, UN goodwill ambassador, and civil rights activist. This is her self-titled album – released in 1960 on the RCA Victor label.

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Miriam Makeba – Mama Africa Vol 1: Folk Versus Apartheid In Jo’burg 1955 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa.

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Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba – An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba (1965/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba is Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba’s 1965 Grammy Award-winning album for Best Folk Recording. The recording features five songs sung by Belafonte, five by Makeba and two duets with the two vocalists. An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba delves into the political plight South Africans were facing under apartheid.

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