Mariam Makeba has died. She died on stage. I was a big fan

[alfredo]

of her, her music, and her struggle to return to a free South Africa. I met her in Dakar Senegal in late 1969. I was having doubts about returning to the US and she told me I must return to fight the beast. When we parted I expressed my wish to see her return home.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/10/obit.makeba.ap/index.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Wow. Onstage? Sorry to hear of her passing, but it is amazing that it happened

while doing what she most loved.

[alfredo]

2. She was one of my heroes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VrfadKbco&feature=related

Young Mariam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spuz9X8fWjI

Love this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1YKOk9QA8U

One last one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwNk-5enrfM&feature=related

[tabatha]

3. One of my favorite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgwtbeVFjb4

[aquart]

7. Like Moliere.

[lpbk2713]

4. 'I will sing until the last day of my life'

She collapsed right after singing her signature song "Pata Pata". I'm glad she went out her own way. RIP.


Link: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jK_Aed0fG4UHhDXEI2SuOdZLDKHAD94C29N80

[RollWithIt]

5. Actually, she didn't die on stage.... she died the next morning...

Still sad, just pointing that out.

[alfredo]

13. I hope it was without pain or fear

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Here's a tribute from BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/

[alfredo]

8. It was so sad. I remember her first TV appearance in the US. It was

Harry Belafonte who brought her to the American audience. For that I am very grateful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74f9eIi9c0&feature=related

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Yes. She was very beautiful.

[alfredo]

10. And brave for standing up to the White South African government.

this a song they sang as kids making fun of the SA whites because they couldn't make the clicking sounds of the Native South Africans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxkiXALQjU&feature=related

[alfredo]

12. I had the hots for her big time.

[Warpy]

11. Best concert I ever went to was Ms. Makeba and Odetta

at a black college in the south in the 60s. My date and I were the only two white faces in the audience. Once the lights went down any tension from the oddness we represented evaporated and the magic started.

Rest well, great lady.

[HamdenRice]

14. One of my best friends was her back up singer

From what she told me a few months ago, this wasn't that unexpected from close friends, because lately she had been drinking terribly.

[catbyte]

15. Wow...

...I'm so very sorry to hear that. She was a hero of mine. Her music was so very powerful--I think she and Johnny Clegg were instrumental in moving the world to oppose Apartheid.

Rest in Peace, Ms. Makeba and megwetch from the bottom of my heart. :cry:

Diane

"Tales of the hunt will glorify the hunter until lions have their own historians.--African proverb

[alfredo]

16. That's so sad