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Miriam Makeba is a Actor and Music Sud africaine born on 4 march 1932 at Johannesburg (South africa)

Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba
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Birth name Zenzile Miriam Makeba
Nationality South africa
Birth 4 march 1932 at Johannesburg (South africa)
Death 10 november 2008 (at 76 years)
Awards Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎, Polar Music Prize

Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning 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 "Pata Pata", 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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Filmography of Miriam Makeba (8 films)

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YearNameJobRoles
2008Soul PowerActressSelf (archive footage)
2002Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part HarmonyActressHerself
1996When We Were KingsActressSelf
1992Sarafina!ActressAngelina
1989Have You Seen Drum Recently?Actress
1983AmokActress, MusicJoséphine Sempala
1969The Panafrican Festival in AlgiersActressSelf
1959Come Back, AfricaActressMiriam