• 45 tracks – 2CDs – over 2 hours & 30 minutes – a complete musical overview of the first “world music” superstar

• CD1: classic traditional numbers – folk ballads and swinging South African-jazz numbers

• CD2: smoking funk, jazz & soul – music that reflect her involvement in the civil rights & black power movements and influences absorbed from her time as a global citizen in exile from South Africa



HIGHLIGHTS:

• The beginnings of her career in the 50s with The Manhattan Brothers & The Skylarks

• Anthems such as Pata Pata and The Click Song plus many English speaking tracks

• Late 60s soul groovers such as Magwala Ndini and Kulala that show the influence of US soul artists such as Curtis Mayfield & Smokey Robinson

• Potent Civil Rights/social conscious anthems such as Murtala, Quit it & Malcolm X

• Covers of Sergio Mendes’s Mas Que Nada and Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth

• Songs from ‘lost’ album The Guinea Years and back-to-roots albums Sangoma (1990) and Homeland (2000)

• This album is the true musical story behind Miriam Makeba: world music superstar, civil rights activist, mother, grandmother and tells us the remarkable story of this woman who was exiled from her beloved South African homeland, courted controversy in the US by marrying Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael and survived health scares and family tragedies.