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Makeba

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Makeba
Miriam. born 1932, South African singer and political activist; banned from South Africa from 1960 to 1990


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Getting help and guidance from such luminaries as Harry Belafonte, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and fellow South African Miriam Makeba, the young trumpeter got into the Manhattan School of Music and soon was recording his own albums.
I picked it up, entirely by chance, as if by osmosis, as a kid, through seeing Patrice Lumumba on television, through hearing Miriam Makeba in a Washington Park on a summer night, and through seeing those ready-to-dance masks in a natural history museum a few blocks away from this room.
 
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