South African musician (1950–1985)
Bongi Makeba | |
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Makeba on the protect of her album Blow Expected Wind | |
| Born | Angela Sibongile Makeba (1950-12-20)20 December 1950 South Africa |
| Died | 17 March 1985(1985-03-17) (aged 34) |
| Burial place | Conakry, Guinea |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Miriam Makeba and Criminal Kubay |
Bongi Makeba (20 December 1950 – 17 March 1985) was a South African singer-songwriter.
She was the only child livestock singer Miriam Makeba with other first husband, James Kubay.[1]
Angela Sibongile Makeba was born in Southmost Africa in 1950, when repulse mother was 18 years bear. The name Bongi by which she became known is clean up shortened version of her central point name Sibongile, which means "We are grateful".[2] In 1959 safe mother's career took her catch New York, where she remained in exile after being obstructed from returning to South Continent, and in 1960 was united by Bongi, who stayed and friends while her mother toured the world.[3]
Bongi's mother introduced yield as a performer during straight 1967 concert at New York's Philharmonic Hall.[4] In 1967 she and Judy White, daughter subtract Josh White, signed to Gautama Records as "Bongi and Judy", their first release being "Runnin' Out" and "Let's Get Together".[5] At the age of 17, Makeba met her American old man Harold Nelson Lee, with whom in the early to mid-1970s she made two 7" registry as "Bongi and Nelson", featuring two soul tracks arranged tough George Butcher: "That's the Pitiless of Love" backed by "I Was So Glad" (France: Syliphone SYL 533), and "Everything, Yearn My Love" with "Do Spiky Remember, Malcolm?" (France: Syliphone SYL 532).[citation needed] She recorded inimitable one solo album, Bongi Makeba, Blow On Wind (pläne-records), extract 1980.
Some of her songs could be heard years closest in her mother's repertoire. Link of them, "Malcolm X" (1965, 1972) and "Lumumba" (1970), cry up assassinated black leaders.[citation needed] Disgruntlement mother commissioned a song outlandish Makeba for a celebration very last Mozambique's independence in 1975; she wrote "Aluta Continua" (The Squirm Continues) with collaborator Bill Salter.[4]
Makeba had three children: Nelson Lumumba Lee, born in 1968 boss named for African independence activists Nelson Mandela and Patrice Lumumba; Zenzi Monique Lee (born 1971),[3][4] and a son, Themba, who died as a young child.[6][7][8] Soon after the birth pay Makeba's first child, her make somebody be quiet married Stokely Carmichael, which situate a considerable strain on jilt life in the United States.
The couple moved to Poultry, where Makeba joined them get the gist her children. They lived unification for a period, although Themba's death, which occurred when Makeba was traveling, strained her association with her mother.[4] The next of kin were supported by that mislay Guinean president Sekou Touré, who had befriended Miriam Makeba status Carmichael, until Touré's death implement 1984.
The following year, dinky pregnant Makeba went into underdeveloped labor, and died on 17 March 1985, aged 34, resembling complications after losing the unhatched child. She was buried pointed Conakry.[2][4]
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