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The Voice Of Africa (album)
''The Voice of Africa'' is the 1964 fourth album of Miriam Makeba issued by RCA Victor. It charted at #122 on the US album chart.Sylvia Lovina Chidi '' The Greatest Black Achievers in History'' 2014 -- 1291909338 p.129 " Track listing #"Nomthini" (Miriam Makeba, Alan Salinga) 1:51 #"Willow Song" ( Giuseppe Verdi) 2:45 #"Langa More" (Zeph Nkabinde) 2:20 #"Shihibolet" 1:49 #"Tuson" (Julio Perez) 1:58 #"Qhude" (Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela) 2:40 #"Mayibuye" (Miriam Makeba, Christopher Songxaka) 2:45 #"Lovely Lies" (Joe Glazer, Mackay Davashe) 2:42 #"Uyadela" (Miriam Makeba) 2:30 #"Mamoriri" (Miraim Makeba) 1:40 #"Le Fleuve" (Stephane Golmann) 2:00 #"Come to Glory" 2:30 Personnel *Miriam Makeba - vocals *Laura Brower, Marvin Falcon, Samuel Brown - guitar *William Salter - bass guitar *Auchee Lee - drums, percussion *Hugh Masekela Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was describ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Makeba
Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including African popular music, Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa. Born in Johannesburg to Swazi people, Swazi and Xhosa people, Xhosa parents, Makeba was forced to find employment as a child after the death of her father. She had a brief and allegedly abusive first marriage at the age of 17, gave birth to her only child in 1950, and survived breast cancer. Her vocal talent had been recognized when she was a child, and she began singing professionally in the 1950s, with the Cuban Brothers, the Manhattan Brothers, and an all-woman group, the Skylarks (South African vocal group), the Skylarks, performing a mixture of jazz, traditional African melodies, and Western popular music. In 1959, Makeba had a brief r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Music
Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions. African music includes the genres amapiano, Jùjú, Fuji, Afrobeat, Highlife, Makossa, Kizomba, and others. The music and dance of the African diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include American music like Dixieland jazz, blues, jazz, and many Caribbean genres, such as calypso (see kaiso) and soca. Latin American music genres such as cumbia, conga, rumba, son cubano, salsa music, bomba, samba and zouk were founded on the music of enslaved Africans, and have in turn influenced African popular music. Like the music of Asia, India and the Middle East, it is a highly rhythmic music. The complex rhythmic patterns often involving one rhythm played against another to create a polyrhythm. The most common polyrhythm plays three beats on top of two, like a triplet played against straight notes. Sub-Saharan African m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Victor
RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also Arista Records, and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, classical, rock, hip hop, afrobeat, electronic, R&B, blues, jazz, and country. Its name is derived from the initials of its defunct parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). RCA Records was fully acquired by Bertelsmann in 1987, making it a part of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) and became a part of Sony BMG Music Entertainment after the 2004 merger of BMG and Sony; it was acquired by the latter in 2008, after the dissolution of Sony/BMG and the restructuring of Sony Music. RCA Records is the corporate successor of the Victor Talking Machine Company, founded in 1901, making it the second-oldest record label in American history, af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo & Luigi
Hugo & Luigi were an American record producing team, made up of songwriters and producers Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore, who shared an office in New York's Brill Building. Besides their working relationship, they were cousins. Background First coming to attention with singles released on Mercury Records in the mid-1950s, they went on to produce Perry Como, Sam Cooke and several other RCA Victor artists, including the hit records "Twistin' the Night Away", "Another Saturday Night", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Tokens, " Shout", a classic by the Isley Brothers, and "I Will Follow Him" by Little Peggy March. They co-wrote Elvis Presley's hit " Can't Help Falling in Love", with George David Weiss. They also produced albums by Della Reese including ''The Classic Della'', a collection of pop songs based on classical themes and ''Waltz With Me, Della'', a collection of popular songs in 3/4 time. Their track, "La Plume de Ma Tante" (written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning), reached ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The World Of Miriam Makeba
''The World of Miriam Makeba'' is the third studio album by Miriam Makeba released by RCA Victor. It charted at #86 on the US album chart.Sylvia Lovina Chidi - The Greatest Black Achievers in History 2014 -- 1291909338 Page 129 "The Many Voices of Miriam Makeba (1960) (LP Kapp KL1274) Miriam Makeba (1960) (LP RCA LSP2267) The World of Miriam Makeba ... Pata (1967) (LP Reprise RS6274) #74" Hugh Masekela was credited as the conductor. Track listing All tracks composed by Miriam Makeba; except where indicated #"Dubula" – 2:45 #"Forbidden Games" (Barry Parker, Marc Lanjean) – 2:56 #"Pole Mze" – 2:15 #"Little Boy" (Arranged by Miriam Makeba) – 3:22 #"Kwedini" (Jonas Gwangwa) – 2:15 #"Vamos Chamar Ovento" (Dorival Caymmi) – 3:22 #"Umhome" – 2:51 #"Amampondo" – 1:55 #"Wonders and Things" (Carol Hall Carol Hall (April 3, 1936 – October 11, 2018) was an American composer and lyricist. She was best known for composing the music and lyrics for the Broadway stage musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makeba Sings!
''Makeba Sings!'' is the fifth album by Miriam Makeba, released by RCA Victor in 1965. The album charted at number 74 in the US album chart.Max Mojapelo, Sello Galane -''Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South Africa'' 1920299289 2008 Track listing # "Cameroon" (Dorothy Masuka, William Salter) # "Woza" ( Hugh Masekela) # "Little Bird" (Carol Hall) # "Chove-chuva" (Jorge Ben) # "Same Moon" (Millard Thomas, Sondra Martin) # "Kilimanjaro" (Mackay Davashe Makwenkwe "Mackay" Davashe (1920–1972) was a South African musician. He achieved success as a saxophonist and composer with the Manhattan Brothers and later the Jazz Epistles. Biography Davashe was born in 1920 in the South African city of ..., Tom Glazer) # "Khawuyani-Khanyange" (Dorothy Masuka, Miriam Makeba) # "Wind Song" (Andrea Jean Saks, William Salter) # "Khuluma" (Betty Khoza) # "Let's Pretend" (William Salter) # "Beau Chevalier" (Stéphane Gollman) # "Maduna" (Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini, whose works significantly influenced him. In his early operas, Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va, pensiero" from his early opera ''Nabucco'' (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements. As he became professionally successful, he was able ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as "Soweto Blues" and " Bring Him Back Home". He also had a number-one US pop hit in 1968 with his version of "Grazing in the Grass". Early life Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was born in the township of KwaGuqa in Witbank (now called Emalahleni), South Africa, to Thomas Selena Masekela, who was a health inspector and sculptor and his wife, Pauline Bowers Masekela, a social worker. His younger sister Barbara Masekela is a poet, educator and ANC activist. As a child, he began singing and playing piano and was largely raised by his grandmother, who ran an illegal bar for miners. At the age of 14, after seeing the 1950 film '' Young Man with a Horn'' (in which Kirk Douglas plays a character modelled on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackay Davashe
Makwenkwe "Mackay" Davashe (1920–1972) was a South African musician. He achieved success as a saxophonist and composer with the Manhattan Brothers and later the Jazz Epistles. Biography Davashe was born in 1920 in the South African city of East London. He played the pennywhistle in his youth before switching to the saxophone. He toured with several older musicians, including the Jazz Maniacs, a top South African orchestra, in the mid-1940s, and in 1952 several bands in the Johannesburg region sought to cover "Majuba", a song he wrote. That year, ''Drum'' magazine wrote that Davashe's "renditions of African themes are the best we have had so far". In 1950 he was leading a group called the Shantytown Sextet, in which Kippie Moeketsi played. Davashe's style at the time was described as similar to that of tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. By the mid-1950s Davashe had developed an interest in bebop, and began collaborating with Dollar Brand (later known as Abdullah Ibrahim). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Cleveland
James Milton Cleveland (May 3, 1926 – August 23, 2008) was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee.Jazztimes Cleveland was signed by EmArcy Records in 1955. Cleveland was married to jazz vocalist Janet Thurlow. He died on August 23, 2008, in , at the age of 82. He was buried beside his wife at |
