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1 giorno fa · On 15 March 1966, Makeba and Belafonte received the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording for An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba. [68] [69] The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid, including several songs critical of the South African government, such as "Ndodemnyama we Verwoerd" ("Watch our Verwoerd", a reference to Hendrik Verwoerd , one of the ...
5 giorni fa · The new single from the album is a sultry minimalist take on “Love Tastes Like Strawberries.”. Somi performs the song with Gregory Porter as a duet, in tribute to Makeba’s 1965 album An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba, which offered a series of duets by Makeba and her mentor, Harry Belafonte.
1 giorno fa · Harry Belafonte. Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.
2 giorni fa · 1966: Best Folk Performance – An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba; 2000: Grammy Hall of Fame Award; Tony Awards: 1954: Distinguished Supporting or Featured Musical Actor – John Murray Anderson's Almanac; Quincy Jones Quincy Jones’s Oscar is a non-competitive award while his final qualifying award was a competitive Tony for The ...
