Miriam Makeba died November 9th, 2008

[Jodi Ho Lung]

Herbie Miller passed this article on to me. I thought I should share
it with you.

Miriam Makeba (Vocalist)

(b: 4.Mar.1932, Johannesburg/South Africa; d: 9.Nov.2008, Castel
Volturno/Italy)

The singer Miriam Makeba died November 9th in a hospital in Castel
Volturno,
Italy, at the age of 76 after she had collapsed from a heart attack
after a
benefit concert. Makeba started as a jazz singer in 1950s South Africa
and
was one of the first South African musicians to tour Western countries
in
the 1960s. She always was outspoken against Apartheid and was barred
from
re-entry to her home country in 1960. She had a big hit with "Pata,
Pata" in
1967, married the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael in 1968,
subsequently having to leave the United States, settling in Guinea
where she
received a diplomat's passport. She only returned to South Africa in
1990.
Makeba was often referred to as "Mama Africa"; she was one the
continent's
most prominent and beloved musicians.