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Musicians who died on stage
Tiny Tim, Miriam Makeba, Dimebag Darrell, Nelson Eddy, Lee Morgan, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Mark Sandman, Judge Dread, Leonard Warren, Warne Marsh, Richard Versalle, Simon Barere, Sylvia Syms, Leslie Harvey, Mindru Katz, Skinny Dennis
ISBN/EAN: 9781157258575
Umbreit-Nr.: 4018636
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 28 S.
Format in cm: 0.3 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 14.09.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
- Zusatztext
- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: Tiny Tim, Miriam Makeba, Dimebag Darrell, Nelson Eddy, Lee Morgan, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Mark Sandman, Judge Dread, Leonard Warren, Warne Marsh, Richard Versalle, Simon Barere, Sylvia Syms, Leslie Harvey, Mindru Katz, Skinny Dennis, Country Dick Montana, Americo Sbigoli. Excerpt: Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 10 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 in the U.S. and 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. She actively campaigned against the South African system of Apartheid. As a result, the South African government revoked her citizenship and right of return. After the end of Apartheid she returned home. She died on 10 November 2008 after performing in a concert organized to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the Region of Campania. Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma (traditional healer-herbalist). Her father, who died when she was six years old, was a Xhosa. When she was eighteen days old, her mother was arrested for selling umqombothi, an African homemade beer distilled from malt and cornmeal. Her mother was sentenced to a six-month prison term, so Miriam spent her first six months of life in jail. As a child, she sang in the choir of the Kilmerton Training Institute' in Pretoria, a primary school that she attended for eight years. Her professional career began in the 1950s when she was featured in the South African jazz group the Manhattan Brothers, and appeared for the first time on a poster. She left the Manhattan Brothers to record with her all-woman group, The Skylarks, singing a blend of jazz and traditional melodies of South Africa. As early as 1956, she released the single for "Pata Pata". The single was played on all the radio stations and made her known throughout all of South Africa. Though she was a successful recording artist, she was only receiving a few doll