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Mama Africa: The Very Best of Miriam Makeba
:Album Description:25 track compilation from South Africa's most important female vocalist. Includes early songs she recorded as a member of the Manhattan Brothers and The Skylarks through to her classic worldwide hits, 'Pata Pata' and 'The Click Song'. Sleevenotes include a detailed history of Makeba and track by track commentary. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
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Africa
:Album Description:25 track compilation from South Africa's most important female vocalist. Includes early songs she recorded as a member of the Manhattan Brothers and The Skylarks through to her classic worldwide hits, 'Pata Pata' and 'The Click Song'. Sleevenotes include a detailed history of Makeba and track by track commentary. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
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Pata Pata
:Album Description:UK reissue of 1972 album includes one bonus track, a mono version of 'Malayisha', the original B-side for her international 1967 hit 'Pata Pata'. Additional highlights include 'Ring Bell, Ring Bell' & 'What Is Love'.
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Her Essential Recordings: The Empress of African Song
:Album Description:UK reissue of 1972 album includes one bonus track, a mono version of 'Malayisha', the original B-side for her international 1967 hit 'Pata Pata'. Additional highlights include 'Ring Bell, Ring Bell' & 'What Is Love'.
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Sangoma
: :A sangoma is a traditional healer, one who channels the ancestral spirits who advise the living. On this impeccably produced CD, Miriam Makeba returns to her roots, singing the songs of her childhood, and in the process seeks to heal the wounds of apartheid and 30 years of exile from her South African home. The songs here are parables, lullabies, and gathering songs, deeply spiritual and moving. They are songs of struggle and perseverance delivered by Africa's best-loved voice. Mama Africa (Makeba's nickname) is joined by a group of soulful women ...
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Welela
: :A sangoma is a traditional healer, one who channels the ancestral spirits who advise the living. On this impeccably produced CD, Miriam Makeba returns to her roots, singing the songs of her childhood, and in the process seeks to heal the wounds of apartheid and 30 years of exile from her South African home. The songs here are parables, lullabies, and gathering songs, deeply spiritual and moving. They are songs of struggle and perseverance delivered by Africa's best-loved voice. Mama Africa (Makeba's nickname) is joined by a group of soulful women ...
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Grazing in the Grass: The Best of Hugh Masekela
: :In 1968, a little-known South African-born trumpeter and flugelhornist named Hugh Masakela released an instrumental single called 'Grazing in the Grass.' Its catchy, percussive rhythms and jazzy horn lines made it an international hit, and turned Masakela into an overnight star. This compilation contains 14 of Masakela's most celebrated tracks recorded from the '60s to the '90s. These 'greatest hits' show how Masakela ingeniously blends a fiery, post-bop trumpet style with African-American R&B and African rhythms, and long before the term 'world music' came into vogue. Included on this collection is ...
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Reflections
: :For over five decades, the South African vocalist and anti-Apartheid icon Miriam Makeba, aka 'Mama Africa,' put her country's music on the map and was an early world music pioneer. This multilingual CD features percussion, string, and horn arrangements of old and new songs, including contributions by her ex-husband Hugh Masakela and composer Caiphus Semenya. 'I'm in Love with Spring' is a lush duet with singer Nelson Lumumba Lee. Van Morrison's 'I Shall Sing' is rendered in an infectious motherland pulse, matched by the bouncy Braziian numbers 'Mas Que Nada,' and ...
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An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba
: :For over five decades, the South African vocalist and anti-Apartheid icon Miriam Makeba, aka 'Mama Africa,' put her country's music on the map and was an early world music pioneer. This multilingual CD features percussion, string, and horn arrangements of old and new songs, including contributions by her ex-husband Hugh Masakela and composer Caiphus Semenya. 'I'm in Love with Spring' is a lush duet with singer Nelson Lumumba Lee. Van Morrison's 'I Shall Sing' is rendered in an infectious motherland pulse, matched by the bouncy Braziian numbers 'Mas Que Nada,' and ...
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Soweto Gospel Choir - Blessed Live in Concert
:Description:This multitalented group has exploded onto the world music scene, wowing audiences with its virtuosity and passion. Drawn primarily from the churches and communities of South Africa’s most famous township, the choir mixes earthy rhythms, rich harmonies, drumming, dancing, and irrepressible charisma for an experience that lifts the soul and stuns the senses. Filmed live in concert on their 2005 Australian tour, they sing a blend of traditional gospel and contemporary standards in English as well as some of the 10 other official languages of South Africa. Constantly in motion and ...
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