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she borned at Johannesburg, South Africa, her mom worked to meke other people's homes neat and clean, it was hard for her to earn enough for both
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the mom of Miriam went to the prision for sell homemade beer and the police sent he mom to jail for six months, Miriam was only 18 days old and need her mom, so she went to to the prision
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she started her career in her cousins band called manhattan brothers
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Miriam makeba maked his own music band called the skylarks that mixed Jazz with sudafrican tradicional music but she had to leave her music career because she had to continue like an activist
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the film was called comeback africa it can be called a documentary, a reportage, an historical movie or politican cinema, it portrays real people and events, the film is about meaningful social facts like racism
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she was the first african singer to receive a Grammy award, this is an american award for innovative musical performance. She was a revolutionary and she spoke of apartheid and racism everywere
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Miriam Makeba had to leave the Usa because of the apartheid and Moved with her husband to guinea and she lived there by 30 years but when Nelson Mandela got out of the Jail she went to Sudafrica and he offered her to participate in his Gobern
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she died when she was 76th, one year ago, she participed in a Jazz music festival in Johannesburg. She died because of a heart atack after a concert in Italia against racism and the mafia and she was participating on it
