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  • Xhosa people
  • Grammy Award winners
  • 2008 deaths
  • 20th-century singers
  • 1932 births
  • Anti-apartheid activists
  • Cardiovascular disease deaths in Italy
  • Heads Up International artists
  • People from Johannesburg
  • South African musicians
  • South African female singers
  • World music musicians
  • Wrasse Records artists
  • Musicians who died on stage
  • South African exiles
  • South African people of Swazi descent
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  • Born March 4th, 1932, in Johannesburg, South Africadied November 10th, 2008, in Castel Volturno, ItalyGrammy Award-winning South African singer, also known as Mama Afrika.She sang with [a1855666] and [a1573191], before landing a role in the musical King Kong in 1959. She left for London where she met Harry Belafonte, who invited her to America. Makeba is widely regarded as the first lady of South Africa traditional music. At one time married to Hugh Masekela, she became an international superstar in the USA and the UK, before being able to return to South Africa, once the political situation had improved.
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  • Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer and civil rights activist.In the 1960s, she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world. She is best known for the song %22Pata Pata%22, first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967. She recorded and toured with many popular artists, such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela.Makeba campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. The South African government responded by revoking her passport in 1960 and her citizenship and right of return in 1963. As the apartheid system crumbled she returned home for the first time in 1990.Makeba died of a heart attack on 9 November 2008 after performing in a concert in Italy organised to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the region of Campania.
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  • 1932-03-04
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  • Mercury Records
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  • Folk
  • World Music
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