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    Apr 13, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Music review: Soweto Gospel Choir at Disney Hall

    Pop & Hiss
    Soweto Gospel Choir was as much to look at as to listen to Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, where the lively South African ensemble played the final date of an extensive North American tour. Clothed in brightly patterned......
    2. Feb 12, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Taking a census of Grammy nominees, winners

    Who gets nominated for a Grammy? Musicians, sure. But who exactly, on paper, are they?
    Who gets nominated for a Grammy? Musicians, sure. But who exactly, on paper, are they? Take Frank Sinatra. Yes, he was a singer of incredible power, and garnered deserved nods for the beauty of his tone and his mellifluous phrasing. But artistry aside,...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Europe, Bobby Darin, Eminem

    3. Dec 28, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Pop music and jazz figures

    Pop music and jazz figures Bob Popescu, 77; co-owner of Catalina Bar & Grill, turned the Los Angeles club into one of the top jazz venues in the country (Jan. 5) Ken Nelson, 84; longtime Capitol Records talent scout had an ear for country music (Jan. 6)...

    Tags: Connie Francis, Frank Sinatra, Television Industry, Jerry Wexler, Minority Groups

    4. Nov 11, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Miriam Makeba dies at 76; South African singer spent 31 years in exile

    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. She was 76.
    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,...

    Tags: Heads of State, Health, Stokely Carmichael, South Africa, Contracts

    5. Nov 11, 2008 |Resource Link| Los Angeles Times

  5. The Daily Mirror: Miriam Makeba in L.A.

    6. Aug 4, 2010 |Story| Hola Hoy
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    Tags: Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Celia Cruz, CNN (tv network)

    7. Feb 24, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Music that cried freedom

    Trumpeter Hugh Masekela strides purposefully through South Africa's Apartheid Museum, breezing past exhibits on the elaborate racial classification system that relegated black people to the fringes of society, past photographs of bodies of unarmed demonstrators cut down by police, past film clips of the joyous crowds that greeted Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990.
    Times Staff Writer
    Trumpeter Hugh Masekela strides purposefully through South Africa's Apartheid Museum, breezing past exhibits on the elaborate racial classification system that relegated black people to the fringes of society, past photographs of bodies of unarmed...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Entertainment, South Africa, Hugh Masekela

    8. Mar 30, 2001 |Story| Metromix

  8. Dance review, 'Revelations,' by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at the Auditorium Theatre

    Tribune chief critic
    Dances come and dances go, but "Revelations" endures. This American masterpiece, which premiered in 1960, is always the closing piece in its performances in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre programs, and invariably it blows away everything else that has...

    Tags: Dancing, Dance, Companies and Corporations, Duke Ellington, Entertainment

    9. Feb 27, 2003 |Story| Metromix

  9. Movie review, 'Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony'

    Lee Hirsch's "Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony" is a great documentary that makes your heart leap with joy. A musical and political record of more than a half-century of South African history, it's the story of a relatively peaceful revolution...

    Tags: Documentary (genre), Movies, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment, South Africa

    10. Mar 1, 2002 |Story| Metromix

  10. Giving back

    Special to the Tribune
    Hugh Masekela spent 30 years as an expatriate of South Africa, a refugee from his native country's racially oppressive apartheid system. But neither the three decades he spent living abroad nor the international success he achieved during that time with...

    Tags: Music Theater, South Africa, Career and Workplace, Herb Alpert, Paul Simon

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