Reply #4: Oh NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo!! [View All]

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As a child of the '60s, my parents played her records in our household. That was my first exposure to the "click language" of southern Africa where one of the songs on the album from a live performance had her describing and demonstrating the sounds of it to the audience before she sang. I was totally fascinated by it. As a young child then, I didn't understand much of the politics of what was happening in her home country but only knew that despite that, she was a famous South African singer. I did have the luck of seeing Nelson Mandela here in Philadelphia when he was awarded the Liberty Medal back in the '90s and spoke at the Civic Center here (which has since been torn down). But by then fully understood what he, Makeba, and so many others had gone through in their native land.

God bless you Miriam Makeba and R.I.P.