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Miriam Makeba
« on: July 23, 2009, 09:30:17 PM »
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Oh, So Alone by Miriam Makeba

This clip is from a concert she did in Sweden in the 60's.
I thought it would make a nice theme song or anthem-for-Somans. If only we could sing like Miriam, heheh.
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Re: Miriam Makeba
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2009, 11:22:26 PM »
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From the album Welela (1989)

Others have done this song, and I don't know if she was the first.
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Re: Miriam Makeba
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2009, 11:39:45 PM »
Great show!
Some culture in the North.

Well, Berns salonger is one of the most exclusive restuarant, night club, hotel and bar complex in Stockholm, and has been so for over 100 years.

http://www.berns.se/en/restaurants
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Re: Miriam Makeba
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2009, 11:42:06 PM »

'Mama Africa'

From Wiki:

Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 10 November 2008)[2] was a South African singer and civil rights activist. The Grammy Award winning artist is often referred to as Mama Afrika.

Early years

Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa. As a child, she sang at the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, which she attended for eight years.

Makeba first toured with an amateur group. Her professional career began in the 1950s with the Manhattan Brothers, before she formed her own group, The Skylarks, singing a blend of jazz and traditional melodies of South Africa.

In 1959, she performed in the musical King Kong alongside Hugh Masekela, her future husband. Though she was a successful recording artist, she was only receiving a few dollars for each recording session and no provisional royalties, and was keen to go to the United States. Her break came when she had a short guest appearance in the anti-apartheid documentary Come Back, Africa in 1959 by independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The short cameo made an enormous impression on the viewers and Lionel Rogosin managed to organise a visa for her to leave South Africa and to attend the premiere of the film at the Venice Film Festival.


Exile

Makeba then travelled to London where she met Harry Belafonte, who assisted her in gaining entry to and fame in the United States. She released many of her most famous hits there including "Pata Pata", "The Click Song" ("Qongqothwane" in Xhosa), and "Malaika". In 1966, Makeba received the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording together with Harry Belafonte for An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba. The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid.

She discovered that her South African passport was revoked when she tried to return there in 1960 for her mother's funeral. In 1963, after testifying against apartheid before the United Nations, her South African citizenship and her right to return to the country were revoked. She has had nine passports, and was granted honorary citizenship of ten countries.

Her marriage to Trinidadian civil rights activist and Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee leader Stokely Carmichael in 1968 caused controversy in the United States, and her record deals and tours were cancelled. As a result of this, the couple moved to Guinea, where they became close with President Ahmed Sékou Touré and his wife.[5] Makeba separated from Carmichael in 1973, and continued to perform primarily in Africa, South America and Europe. She was one of the African and Afro-American entertainers at the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in Zaïre. Makeba also served as a Guinean delegate to the United Nations, for which she won the Dag Hammarskjöld Peace Prize in 1986.

After the death of her only daughter Bongi Makeba in 1985, she moved to Brussels. In 1987, she appeared in Paul Simon's Graceland tour. Shortly thereafter she published her autobiography Makeba: My Story (ISBN 0-453-00561-6).


Return to South Africa

Nelson Mandela persuaded her to return to South Africa in 1990. In November 1991, she made a guest appearance in an episode of The Cosby Show, in the episode "Olivia Comes Out Of The Closet". In 1992 she starred in the film Sarafina!, about the 1976 Soweto youth uprisings, as the title character's mother, "Angelina." She also took part in the 2002 documentary Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony where she and others recalled the days of apartheid.

In January 2000, her album, Homeland, produced by Cedric Samson and Michael Levinsohn was nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best World Music" category. In 2001 she was awarded the Gold Otto Hahn Peace Medal by the United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN) in Berlin, "for outstanding services to peace and international understanding". In 2002, she shared the Polar Music Prize with Sofia Gubaidulina. In 2004, Makeba was voted 38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans. Makeba started a worldwide farewell tour in 2005, holding concerts in all of those countries that she had visited during her working life.

Her publicist notes that Makeba had suffered "severe arthritis" for some time.


Death

On 9 November 2008, she became ill while taking part in a concert organized to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the Region of Campania. The concert was being held in Castel Volturno, near Caserta, Italy. Makeba suffered a heart attack after singing her hit song "Pata Pata", and was taken to the "Pineta Grande" clinic where doctors were unable to revive her.

Several reports gave her cause of death as cardiac arrest, apparently quoting a death certificate signed by a licensed physician: most physicians regard cardiac arrest a symptom of death, rather than a cause. In Makeba's case, the cause would be a myocardial infarction (heart attack).


Discography

Studio albums

Miriam Makeba: 1960 - RCA LSP2267
The Many Voices Of Miriam Makeba: 1960 - Kapp KL1274
The World Of Miriam Makeba: 1963 - RCA LSP2750
Makeba: 1964 - RCA LSP2845
Makeba Sings: 1965 - RCA LSP3321
An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba (with Harry Belafonte): 1965 - RCA LSP3420
The Magic of Makeba: 1965 - RCA LSP3512
The Magnificient Miriam Makeba: 1966 - Mercury 134016
All About Miriam: 1966 - Mercury 134029
Miriam Makeba In Concert!: 1967 - Reprise RS6253
Pata Pata: 1967 - Reprise RS6274
Makeba!: 1968 - Reprise RS6310
Live in Tokyo: 1968 - Reprise SJET8082
Keep Me In Mind: 1970 - Reprise RS6381
A Promise: 1974 - RCA YSPL1-544
Live In Conakry - Appel A L'Afriqu: 1974 - Sonodisc SLP22
Miriam Makeba & Bongi: 1975 - Sonodisc SLP48
Live in Paris: 1977 - CD6508
Country Girl: 1978 - Sonodisc ESP165518
Comme Une Symphonie d'Amour: 1979
Sangoma: 1988 - Warner Bros. 25673
Welela: 1989 - Gallo CDGSP3084
Eyes On Tomorrow: 1991 - Gallo CDGSP3086
Sing Me A Song: 1993 - CDS12702
Homeland, 2000 - Putumayo PUTU1642
The Definitive Collection, Wrasse Records - 2002
Best of The Early Years, Wrasse Records - 2002
Live at Berns Salonger, Stockholm, Sweden, 1966: 2003 - Gallo Music GWVCD-49
Reflecting, 2004 - Gallo Music GWVCD-51
Makeba Forever, 2006, Gallo Music CDGURB-082

Compilations
The Queen Of African Music - 17 Great Songs, 1987
Africa 1960-65 recordings, 1991
Eyes On Tomorrow, 1991
The Best Of Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks: 1956 - 1959 recordings, 1998
Mama Africa: The Very Best Of Miriam Makeba, 2000
The Guinea Years, 2001
The Definitive Collection, 2002
The Best Of The Early Years, 2003


Uh-oh .. while she was working against the mafioso-like organization in South Africa, she had a mysterious and fatal heart attack. That's suspicious.
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Re: Miriam Makeba
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2009, 11:45:06 PM »
Quote from: Jamir on July 23, 2009, 11:39:45 PM
Great show!
Some culture in the North.

Well, Berns salonger is one of the most exclusive restuarant, night club, hotel and bar complex in Stockholm, and has been so for over 100 years.

http://www.berns.se/en/restaurants

I bet, as they would have said in the 60's, it was a "gas" seeing her in such a cozy setting! The Stockholmians are a very sophisticated lot, eh, J?
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Re: Miriam Makeba
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2009, 12:24:04 AM »
Ahhh...how as a child, i used to love this lady singing .  I would lay under the gramophone, rocking my head and listening. Thank you for this post.
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Re: Miriam Makeba
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2009, 12:39:04 AM »
Quote from: xero on July 24, 2009, 12:24:04 AM
Ahhh...how as a child, i used to love this lady singing .  I would lay under the gramophone, rocking my head and listening. Thank you for this post.

Those were the days!
There's something timeless here, n'est-ce pas?
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Re: Miriam Makeba
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2009, 03:27:30 AM »
This was my favourite. The clicking fascinated me and I would spend ages trying to click too!   :)

The sound of this recording is not so great though. Usually it sounds so much brighter. Qongqothwane ("The Knock-Knock Beetle," known in English as The Click Song) is a Xhosa wedding song.

the click song

This second version sounds like it was recorded later.

the click song



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Re: Miriam Makeba
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2009, 03:49:45 AM »
Daph, you can speak the language? I'll bet learning that was very difficult, and definitely a reality-bender.  I listened to her speak many years ago -- she used lots of clicking when she was speaking of home and using words of her language. Even hearing it spoken stretched one out of one's comfort zone -- amazing that you're surrounded by such a different culture there.
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Re: Miriam Makeba
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2009, 06:35:04 AM »
Quote from: Nichi on July 24, 2009, 03:49:45 AM
Wow, Daph, you can speak the language? I'll bet learning that was very difficult, and definitely a reality-bender.  I listened to her speak many years ago -- she used lots of clicking when she was speaking of home and using words of her language. Even hearing it spoken stretched one out of one's comfort zone -- amazing that you're surrounded by such a different culture there.

Nah, can't speak the language   :)   just used to "sing" the song (in private, and really only the chorus part.. that was hard enough!   :P  )

The Click Song

Igqirha lendlela
nguqongqothwane
Eb'eqabel' egqith' apha
uqongqothwane    

The witchdoctor of the road
is a black beetle x 4
It has gone past here,
the black beetle x 4

Nguqo nguqongqothwane
Nguqo nguqongqothwane
Nguqo nguqongqothwane
Nguqo nguqongqothwane

Chorus x 2
Igqira lendlela nguqo ngqothwane
Igqira lendlela nguqo ngqothwane

Verse x2
Seleqabele gqi thapha nguqo ngqothwane
Selequbule gqi thapha nguqo ngqothwane

Chorus

Nguqo nguqongqothwane
Nguqo nguqongqothwane
Nguqo nguqongqothwane
Nguqo nguqongqothwane

Chorus

Bridge
Uuh wo uuuh
Uuh wo uuuh wo
Uuh wo uuh
Uuh wo uuh
Uuh wo uuh
Uuh wo uuh wo

Chorus
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Re: Miriam Makeba
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2013, 05:54:38 AM »
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Re: Miriam Makeba
« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2013, 05:59:05 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2013, 06:05:03 AM »
The Zulu Song
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« Reply #13 on: May 29, 2013, 04:54:46 PM »
Pata Pata
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« Reply #14 on: May 30, 2013, 04:00:54 AM »
Quote from: Nichi on May 29, 2013, 05:54:38 AM
I realize that many of the links above are broken, alas. I've deleted most of them.

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Miriam is a great performer.
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