Music
Google doodles South Africa’s Miriam Makeba on her 81st birthday
March 4, 2013
World & Nation
Miriam Makeba Home at Last: Miriam Makeba, the South African-born singer hailed as “Mama Africa” for her passion and popularity, sang on home soil for the first time in 31 years Sunday after returning from political exile to visit family and her mother’s grave in Johannesburg.
June 11, 1990
Movies
As the fortunes of people change, the music that propels them lives on to both remind and inspire.
Feb. 8, 2018
South African singer Miriam Makeba’s last L.A. appearance (or is it?) is flowing with style and substance.
Oct. 3, 2005
Entertainment & Arts
Even if she hadn’t become an internationally known singer, Miriam Makeba’s life would have been one of extraordinary courage and suffering.
Feb. 7, 1988
Miriam Makeba has consistently resisted specific identification as a political figure.
July 18, 2000
Obituaries
Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who for more than half a century brought the intricate rhythms of her native land to millions of listeners around the world and whose role as a spokeswoman against apartheid subjected her to 31 years of exile, died early Monday after a concert in Italy.
Nov. 11, 2008
“Even though we had known for weeks that the tour was coming here, I kept thinking, ‘It’s not going to happen. . . .
Feb. 21, 1987
Concerts by exiled South African singer Miriam Makeba and trumpeter/singer Hugh Masekela are inevitably surrounded by an aura of social and cultural energy that reaches far beyond the confines of the performance area.
April 16, 1988
Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, Miriam Makeba, Dire Straits and the Eurythmics are among the musicians who will mark jailed black South African leader Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday with a 10-hour rock extravaganza in London next month.
May 16, 1988