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Beginning her career fifty years ago as the principal female voice in the South Africa Broadway inspired musical King Kong, Miriam Makeba gives the music world her first new release in four years. She even sang for President Kennedy at his ’59 birthday party (you didn’t think only Marilyn Monroe sang to one of the best US Presidents of all time did you?). Her South African citizenship was revoked when this songstress testified about apartheid before the United Nations but moved to America where she was pals with Nina Simone and Odetta and later married Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael. This proved to be a stoking of the fire, which eventually found them fleeing for Guinea after continued harassment and her RCA contract being nullified. Regardless her “Reflections” are as lush as her life has been. “Pata Pata” perhaps her most famous work is included in this release. Her knack for other languages is showcased on “Comme Une Symphonie D’Amour” although she’s also sung
in everything from Yiddish to Portuguese. Ranging as deep and diverse as her voice, the album finds traditional African pieces as well as bossa nova, 60’s pop, jazz, and luxuriant orchestrations. An incredible woman with a lot to tell needs an album that speaks of her entire life—and that’s exactly what we get and more.
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