Miriam Makeba - Definition and Overview

Miriam Makeba is a South African singer. In 1959 she was exiled because of her appearance in the anti-apartheid-movie "Come Back Africa" and spent 31 years away from home carrying the struggle against the racist system around the world with her music, before Nelson Mandela finally made her come back to South Africa in 1990. In 1966, she received the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording together with Harry Belafonte. In 1967 she had a world wide Hit with "Pata Pata", in 1987 she achieved another peak in popularity by appearing in Paul Simon's Graceland-Tour. Shortly thereafter she published her autobiography "Makeba: My Story". In 2002, she shared the Polar Music Prize with Sofia Gubaidulina.

In 2004 she was voted 38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans (see List of South Africans).

See also

• Culture of South Africa
• Grammy Awards of 1966

External links

• Prizewinners of 2002 (http://www.polarmusicprize.se/newSite/2002.shtml) - Polar Music Prize
• Photos from the Prize Ceremony (http://www.polarmusicprize.se/newSite/cerm2002_photos.shtml) - Polar Music Prize
• New Internationalist Magazine (http://www.newint.org/issue359/rebels.htm) - short profile of Makeba
• [1] (http://www.miriam-makeba.com)extended biography, discography, list of awards ect.