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5 giorni fa · Miriam Makeba, often referred to as Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist. She was one of the most prominent voices in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Makeba’s music blended traditional African rhythms with elements of jazz, pop, and folk, and she sang in several languages, including Xhosa, […]
3 giorni fa · iriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg South Africa in 1932. Even though she did not write the original lyrics of the song, Malaika, she popularized it as soon as her own version came out. In 1977, during the FESTAC festival in Lagos, Nigeria, Miriam Makeba electrified the audience in the main bowl of the FESTAC theater, Iganmu, Lagos, when she sang the song Malaika.
4 giorni fa · Vocalist Somi will release her full-length personal tribute to the legendary Miriam Makeba on March 4. Pre-order Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba here . The new single from the album is a sultry minimalist take on “Love Tastes Like Strawberries.”
3 giorni fa · In the 1970s, Abeti Masikini and her troupe Les Tigresses gained critical acclaim for their performance at the Olympia Hall in Paris in 1973 and Carnegie Hall in New York in June 1974, and sharing the stage with James Brown, Miriam Makeba, Tabu Ley Rochereau, and Franco Luambo in October 1974, during the opening show of the historic Rumble in the Jungle in Kinshasa.
2 giorni fa · Public access television: America's electronic soapbox by Laura Linder. Call Number: Baker-Berry HE 8700.72 .U6 L56 1999. ISBN: 9780275964870. As Laura Linder asserts, increased concentration of media ownership has resulted in the homogenization of public discourse. Packaged, commercialized messages have replaced the personalized and localized ...
Many struggle to earn from their art despite its potential to drive significant economic growth. By fostering a supportive ecosystem with smart investments, fair policies, copyright protection, and just compensation, we can transform Africa’s cultural assets into economic powerhouses.
5 giorni fa · This article looks at Gerhard Gundermann’s use of the Krabat motif from Jurij Brězan’s novel Krabat or the Transformation of the World in his Liedertheater productions with Brigade Feuerstein in the GDR and, post-unification, in his solo songs. From Hoyerswerda in South-East Germany, Gundermann was simultaneously an open-cast miner and a singer/songwriter and dramatist who died ...
