All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
CELEBRATED international music star Miriam Makeba a.k.a Mama Africa, says she will keep singing as long as her body can allow her.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Legendary music star Miriam Makeba, also known as Mama Africa, was due to arrive yesterday evening [in Uganda] ahead of a two-day jazz festival starting today. Makeba, a leading jazz artiste, has promoted African jazz all over the world...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Miriam Makeba, the empress of African music will headline the Kampala Jazz Festival at Speke Resort Munyonyo this evening.
Ugandan Insomniac (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Got your ticket yet? Here’s the festival program to wet your appetite (thanks again Scarlett Lion). DAY ONE – Friday 10.10 18:00 Opening 18:15 Isaiah Katumwa 20:00 Miriam Makeba 21:30 Third World Love 23:00 Jam Session DAY TWO – Saturday 11.10 16:00 John Bash 17:30 Sundiata 18:00 Bxmba Waves 19:00 Soul Beat Africa 20:30 Oliver Mtkudzi 22:30 Jam session Tickets are only 20k at [...]
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
The legendary 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire was preceded by a three-day concert, “Zaire ‘74,” featuring some of greatest musical artists of the time: James Brown, B.B. King, the Spinners, Bill Withers, the Fania All-Stars, Miriam Makeba and a variety of Zairian artists, like François “Franco” Luambo Makiadi. The heavyweight bout was immortalized by Leon...
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
* Okay, “When We Were Kings” were only half way a concert film, but it still counts (of the African artists on that bill, apart from Miriam Makeba’s performance being fetichized by the American sports writers as some sort of witch, you can also see a young Hugh Masekela. Or I think I did) LeoAfricanus ]]>
Smuggled Sounds (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Following a three decade long exile, Miriam Makeba's return to South Africa was celebrated as though a queen was restoring her monarchy. The response was fitting as Makeba remains the most important female vocalist to emerge out of South Africa. Hailed as The Empress Of African Song and Mama Africa, Makeba helped bring African music to a global audience in the 1960s. Nearly five decades after her debut...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Thankfully, Makeba's fellow South African and renowned vocalist Sibongile Khumalo has agreed to step in and has traveled to the U.S. specifically to perform at Celebrate Brooklyn! Sadly, a fall sustained by Miriam Makeba late last week has forced the cancellation of her U.S. dates. Although it makes her deeply sorry to disappoint her loyal fans, Ms. Makeba's doctors are not allowing her to travel!...
DATA news (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
(SPECIAL NEW AND OLD FAVORITES EPISODE!) First up, Brooklyn's indie pop outfit and TSiMH favorites The Ladybug Transistor have a new album called Can't Wait Another Day ( iTunes , eMusic , Amazon ) coming out on June 5th, but it's availble now if you see their less-than-awesome live show, we heard a song that's better when they play it live substituting the Sax for a Trumpet called "Always on the Telephone"....
Larisa Alexandrovna's At Largely (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Music of Cesaria Evora, Alla Pugacheva, Edith Piaf, Miriam Makeba, Gipsy Kings
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Don't panic, folks, there won't be an inferno but instead a collection of jazz artistes will set the place ablaze with their tunes during the Kampala Jazz Festival scheduled to run between October 10 and October 12.
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Sibongile Khumalo...
Bosses blog (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Zukiswa Wanner, South Africa Fiddles, While Gauteng Burns Would Mama Miriam Makeba, Jonas Gwangwa and Hugh Masekela have been as celebrated on the continent? Would Lewis Nkosi and Eskia Mphahlele have attained their intellectual status if it were not for teaching at some of the African universities they taught at? Would South Africa be the country it is without the thousands of exiles who were welcomed,...
Plucky Punk's Happy Land...Grr...Sp (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Inspired by Natalia . Djimon Hounsou Ewan MacGregor Isabella Rossellini Miriam Makeba
breath of life (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Oh, what a week on BoL. The Other Woman Redux: Barbara Mason, Joan Armatrading, The Soul Children, Erykah Badu, Nina Simone, and Nancy Wilson. Then we head off to the motherland to listen to Souad Massi, Geoffrey Oryema,, Madosini, Khadja Nin, Boubacar Traore and Miriam Makeba. And finally we have a dozen versions of Coltrane's [...]
