Miriam Makeba - The Sweet Sound of Africa - 2CD 2011

Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist.

In the 1960s she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music in the U.S. and around the world. She is best known for the song Pata Pata, first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967. She recorded and toured with many popular artists, such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela.

She actively campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. As a result, the South African government revoked her citizenship and right of return. After the end of apartheid she returned home. She died on 9 November 2008 after performing in a concert in Italy organized to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the region of Campania. (wikipedia)

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Miriam Makeba - The Sweet Sound of Africa 1954-1960
(2CD Not Now Music 2011)

1. The Click Song
2. Phata Phata
3. Mtshakasi
4. Table Mountain
5. Thanayi
6. Liwa Wechi (Congolese Lament)
7. Uthando Luyaphela
8. Uyadela
9. Carnival
10. Kilimanjaro (Hunting Song and Boot Dance)
11. Suliram
12. Saduva
13. Mdube
14. Ndimbone Dluca
15. Night Must Fall
16. Nagula (Witch Doctor Song)
17. Love Tastes Like Strawberries (West Indian Ballad)
18. Makoti
19. Owakho
20. Ekoneni
21. Sindiza Ngecadillacs
22. Baya Ndi Nemeza
23. Iya Guduza
24. Nomeva
25. Zenizenabo (A courage song for Warriors)
26. Can't Cross Over (West Indian Calypso)
27. House Of The Rising Sun
28. Olilili
29. Umhome
30. Umqokozo (A Children's Game song about a new Red Dress)
31. Ntjilo Ntjilo (Lullaby to a Child about a little Canary)
32. Ngola Kurila
33. The Naughty Little Flea
34. Where Does It Lead?
35. Lakutshn, IIanga
36. The Retreat Song
37. Ndamcenga
38. Ndidliwe Zintabe
39. Inkomo Zodwa
40. Nomalungelo
41. Kutheni Sithandwa
42. Vula Amasango
43. Yini Madoda
44. Baby Ntsoare
45. One More dance (with Charles Colman)