Johannesburg - South African music star Miriam Makeba is tot.Die with the hit "Pata Pata" which has become famous former anti-apartheid activist, died in a hospital in southern Italy at the age Of76 years ago of a heart attack.
Her manager confirmed amMontagmorgen relevant information from the Italian news agency Ansa. She had already suffered for a long time to schwererArthritis, but still worked with one of her grandchildren at a neuenAlbum.
Makeba was on 4 March 1932 in Johannesburg to Weltgekommen. The respect in their homeland, "Mama Africa" called Künstlerinhatte herself and her songs always put at the service of freedom, justice and international understanding. Their struggle gegenUnrecht and racial segregation in her native derSchauspielerin brought an author and composer awards and Ehrungenaus around the world.
In the jazz of the '50s had grown up, brought dieKünstlerin to spend because of the apartheid regime 31 years of her life inder strangers had since the '60s as a derersten the music of their continent to the West.
The enthusiastic singer with a mixture of jazz, protest undFolklore. In 1960 she was allowed to return because of their public involvement in succession abroad do not return to South Africa.
Sieblieb in London, where Harry Belafonte impressed by her powerful voice and her talent was undihrem later in the U.S., many Türenöffnete. Both also occurred together. Seven years after the exile Beginnihres she landed with "Pata Pata" a worldwide hit.
But when they the "Black Power" 1968heiratete activist Stokely Carmichael, it was with the goodwill of their host country and by siemusste leave the United States. She went to Guinea, where she was received with allenEhren and also received a diplomatic passport.
But fromthe exile to return home again until she was allowed to 1990, began to crumble as dieApartheid.
