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Miriam Makeba
1932–2008
About Miriam Makeba
Known as Mama Africa, Miriam Makeba became the first African artist to win a Grammy Award and the first to bring African music to mainstream Western audiences. Exiled for 30 years for speaking out against apartheid, she turned her music into a weapon of peaceful resistance — performing alongside Harry Belafonte, marching with Nelson Mandela, and addressing the United Nations.
Essential Tracks
1967Pata Pata
1963The Click Song
1974Malaika
1989Welela