Monday, December 5, 2011

South African Legendary Singers

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     James Brown(Click to listen him in concert on NPR) the singer, song writer, bandleader, and dancer who sold millions of records in his career which lasted half a century. He regularly topped the rhythm-and-blues charts, although he never had a No. 1 pop hit in the 1960s and the 1970s. James Brown at Zaire singing to an African audience, “Say It Loud — I’m Black and I’m Proud.” This music innovator died of congestive heart failure in Atlanta at the age of 73
     B.B. King interview with NY Times. This interview organized in several sections like Influences, Childhood, First Guitar, Radio Job, The Fillmore, Sinatra, where you can click and listen.  
This is his interview with National Public Radio (Click to listen his interview with NPR      
Miriam Makeba (Acknowledge of her musical works on NPR) was a activist, and the South African music quin, music princess, widely known as " Mama Africa". She was a prominent opponent of apartheid. Mandela conveys, “She was South Africa’s first lady of song and so richly deserved the title of Mama Afrika. She was a mother to our struggle and to the young nation of ours.” Her music inspired a powerful sense of hope in all of us. Ms. Makeba’s musical career spanned five decades. This music legend left us at the age of 76 cause of cardiac arrest. 

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