Myrian MAKEBA
Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932, Johannesburg - November 9, 2008 [1], Castel Volturno), was a singer of a South African citizen, naturalized Guinea in the 1960s, and Algeria in 1969 and honorary citizen in 1990 French. It was sometimes nicknamed Mama Afrika. His full name was Zenzile Makeba Qgwashu Nguvama. Born in 1932 in the South African capital, Zenzi, diminutive Uzenzile which means, "You must take that t to yourself," begins his sad fate in prison copy: No it has only a few days when his mother was charged for six months for manufactured beer to provide for his family. His father died when she was five years. In 1947, the Afrikaner nationalists win elections and plunge the black people in the arbitrariness and violence. This is the beginning of the apartheid. At 20, Zenzi Makeba, good for children and washer taxi, lives alone with her daughter Bongi and her mother. C was there that she began singing, almost by chance, with the Cuban Brothers, and became a chorister group Manhattan Brothers in 1952, which gives him his stage name, Miriam. If it becomes very quickly a star, she uses her new job to protest the apartheid regime. In 1956, she wrote her biggest hit, the song Pata Pata, with whom she toured the world. This song will also resume in French by Sylvie Vartan as the Tape Tape in 1980. In 1959, she was forced into exile that lasted 31 years, because of its appearance in the anti-apartheid movie Come Back, Africa American filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. When his mother died in 1960, she was unable to attend his funeral because of his banishment in South Africa. She will not return to South Africa to release Nelson Mandela, imprisoned with most leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) at Robben Island prison. It will continue to deliver speeches against apartheid and call for a boycott of South Africa before the United Nations. She sings in Zulu, zhoxa, in Tswana. His melodies sing of tolerance and peace. She lives everywhere, free and hunted in the United States, Guinea, Europe. She became the symbol of the anti-apartheid. In his songs, no bitterness but an unfailing dignity. In 1966, Makeba received a Grammy for his album An evening with Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba and became the first South African to receive the medal. In 1985, her daughter Bongi died in Guinea as a result of childbirth. In 1987 Miriam Makeba meets again success through its collaboration with Paul Simon album Graceland. Soon after, she published her autobiography Makeba: My Story. His marriage in 1969 with the civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael African-American, Black Panther leader, caused him trouble in the U.S.. She went into exile again and moved to Guinea. Miriam Makeba is decorated by France as a Commander of Arts and Letters in 1985 and became Honorary Citizen in 1990 [4]. In 1990, Nelson Mandela persuaded her to return to South Africa. In 1992, she played the role of the mother (Angelina) in the film Sarafina! which recounts the 1976 Soweto riots. In 2002, she shared the Polar Music Prize with Sofia Gubaidulina. Miriam Makeba had always dreamed of a great united Africa. For her country, she exhorted his black brothers to forgiveness. "We must let it grow. Blacks and whites must learn to know, to live together. "She announced in 2005 that it was ending his career, but she continued to defend the causes she believed. She died Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008, at the age of 76, Tlaxcala at a Malaysian, following a concert in support of the author of "Gomorrah", Roberto Saviano, trapped by Camorra (Neapolitan Mafia). Google machine translation: Myrian MAKEBA's original bio |
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| Myrian MAKEBA Publisher : Robert Martin Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band Style & options : Pop music |
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| Myrian MAKEBA Arr : Robert FIENGA Publisher : Robert Martin Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band Style & options : Pop music |
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| Myrian MAKEBA/RAGOVOY Publisher : Marc Reift Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band |
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| Myrian MAKEBA Arr : Filip CEUNEN Publisher : Beriato Music Publishing Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band Style & options : Pop music |
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| Myrian MAKEBA Publisher : Bernaerts Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band |
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| Myrian MAKEBA Arr : JOHN RYAN Publisher : Bernaerts Genre : Orchestra Group : Brass band |
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