''Country Girl'' is a 1978 album by

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 Afropop, jazz, and world music, she w ...

. The album was recorded in

Kumasi Kumasi (historically spelled Comassie or Coomassie, usually spelled Kumase in Twi) is a city in the Ashanti Region, and is among the largest metropolitan areas in Ghana. Kumasi is located in a rain forest region near Lake Bosomtwe, and is t ...

, Ghana, but completed in

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...

with members of

Ipi Tombi ''Ipi Tombi'' (also produced as ''Ipi N'tombi'', both corrupted transliterations of the Zulu ''iphi ntombi'', or "where is the girl?"), is a 1974 musical by South African writers Bertha Egnos Godfrey and her daughter Gail Lakier, telling the stor ...

.Max Mojapelo, Sello Galane - ''Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South Africa'' 2008 It may interest some readers to note that though her album Country Girl was recorded in Kumasi, it was completed in new York with some members of Ipi tombi. Some of them like Julia Mathunjwa, Betty hlela and nomsa caluza formed a group called Shikisha..

Track listing

#Witch Doctor (Isangoma) #Country Girl #Tailor Man #"Xica Da Silva",

Jorge Ben Jorge Duílio Lima Menezes (born March 22, 1939) is a Brazilian popular musician, performing under the stage name Jorge Ben Jor since the 1980s, though commonly known by his former stage name Jorge Ben (). His characteristic style fuses samba ...

#Meet Me At The River #The Lion Cries (Mbube) #Goodbye Poverty #Click Song

References

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