Miriam Makeba
Born in 1932 in South Africa, Miriam Makeba first came to the public’s attention as a featured vocalist with the Manhattan Brothers in 1954. She soon left to record with her all-woman group the Skylarks while touring Southern Africa with Alf Herberts’ African Jazz and Variety, an 18 month tour that launched the careers of many African artists.
In 1959, Makeba’s incredible voice help win her the role of the female lead in the show, King Kong, a Broadway-inspired South African musical. She then went to conquer America where she sang at President Kennedy’s birthday and worked in New York with Harry Belafonte creating such classics as “The Click Song” and “Pata Pata.”
In 1963 she testified about apartheid before the United Nations, as a result the South African government revoked her citizenship and right of return. She stayed in the U.S. and married Stokely Carmichael, a Black Panther leader. After harassment by U.S. authorities she fled to exile in Guinea.
Makeba returned to world prominence when she performed with Paul Simon on the Graceland tour. Finally in the late 1980’s she returned to her homeland as a free South African.
(from the African Music Encyclopedia)
On this page:
The Best of the Early Years
2002
CD (597-C) $15.00 plus shipping available
Tracks:
- 1. Teya Teya
- 2. Live Humble
- 3. Orlando
- 4. Make Us One
- 5. Back of the Moon
- 6. Quickly in Love
- 7. Sophiatown Is Gone
- 8. Holilili
- 9. Ndamcenga
- 10. Nomalungelo
- 11. Kutheni Sithandwa
- 12. Umbhaqanga
- 13. Baby Ntsoare
- 14. Tula Ndiville
- 15. Table Mountain
- 16. Pula Kgosi Seretse
- 17. Ntyilo Ntyilo
- 18. Miriam's Goodbye to Africa
- 19. Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games)
- 20. Milélé
- 21. Hush (performed by with the Skylarks)
- 22. Laku Tshone 'Ilanga
- 23. Darlie Kea Lemang
- 24. Pata Pata
Credits:
Live at Berns Salonger
Stockholm, Sweden, 1966
1966
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Recorded live at Berns Salonger in Stockholm on February 3, 1966 between 22.00 and 23.00 hrs.
Tracks:
- 1. Introduction (0:44)
- 2. Mbube (3:22)
- 3. Ask the Rising Sun (3:17)
- 4. Forbidden Games (2:58)
- 5. Chove Chuva (3:04)
- 6. Click Song 1 (2:09)
- 7. When I've Passed On (4:43)
- 8. You Are In Love (3:27)
- 9. The Naughty Little Flea (4:32)
- 10. Mayibuye (3:43)
- 11. Kilimanjaro (2:36)
- 12. Amampondo (5:14)
- 13. Oxgam (Click Song 2) (2:13)
- 14. Oh, So Alone (3:39)
- 15. Akana Nkomo (3:21)
- 16. Kilimanjaro (Outro) (1:02)
Instruments: (in alphabetical order)
accordion, bass, guitar, percussion, voice.
Credits: (in alphabetical order)
Leopoldo Fleming Jr., Miriam Makeba, William Salter, Sivuca.
The Best Of Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks
CD (587-C) $15.00 plus shipping not currently in stock
Tracks:
- 1. Uthando Luyaphela (2:30)
- 2. Table Mountain (2:26)
- 3. Miriam and Spokes` phata phata (2:38)
- 4. Mtshakasi (2:18)
- 5. Ndimbone Dluca (2:29)
- 6. Ndamcenga (2:28)
- 7. Makoti (2:36)
- 8. Ndidliwe Zintabe (2:34)
- 9. Inkomo Zodwa (2:27)
- 10. Sindiza Ngecadillacs (2:27)
- 11. Nomalungelo (2:27)
- 12. Kutheni Sithandwa (2:39)
- 13. Vula Amasango (2:49)
- 14. Owakho (2:43)
- 15. Baya Ndi Memeza (2:29)
- 16. Yini Madoda (2:37)
- 17. Ekoneni (2:23)
- 18. Uyadela (2:26)
Credits:
The Guinea Years
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Tracks:
- 1. Teya Teya (3:25)
- 2. L'Enfant el la Gazelle (3:45)
- 3. Milele (3:29)
- 4. Amampondo (2:33)
- 5. Toure Barika (3:04)
- 6. Lovely Lies (2:41)
- 7. Africa (5:44)
- 8. Maobhe Guinee (2:41)
- 9. Jeux Interdits (3:35)
- 10. West Wind Unification (5:26)
- 11. Dakhla Yunik (2:43)
- 12. Teya Teya (3:19)
- 13. Djuiginira (2:35)
- 14. Malouyame (3:36)
- 15. Kadeya Deya (4:08)
- 16. Sekou Famake (2:17)
Credits:
Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks Volume 2
CD (588-C) $17.00 plus shipping not currently in stock
Tracks:
- 1. Ndidliwe Zintaba (2:34)
- 2. Orlando (2:46)
- 3. Baya Ndi Memeza (2:27)
- 4. Vula Amasango (2:46)
- 5. Unyana Wolahleko (2:31)
- 6. Owakho (2:40)
- 7. Sophiatown Is Gone (2:42)
- 8. Ndamcenga (2:27)
- 9. Themba Lami (2:40)
- 10. Ekoneni (2:22)
- 11. Ndimbone Dluca (2:28)
- 12. Ndiya Nxila Apha E-Bhayi (2:30)
- 13. Intandane (2:26)
- 14. Uyadela (2:28)
- 15. Hush (2:42)
- 16. Makoti (2:34)
Credits:
The World Of Miriam Makeba
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Here Miriam Makeba performs with the Belafonte Folk Singers.
Tracks:
- 1. Dubula (2:45)
- 2. Forbidden Games (2:56)
- 3. Pole Mze (2:15)
- 4. Little Boy (3:22)
- 5. Kwedini (2:15)
- 6. Vamos Chamar Ovento (3:22)
- 7. Umhome (2:51)
- 8. Amampondo, pg. 1:55
- 9. Wonders And Things (3:10)
- 10. Tornados Di Media Noche (3:06)
- 11. Into Yam (2:40)
- 12. Where Can I Go ? (2:52)