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South African musician (1950–1985)

Bongi Makeba (20 December 1950 – 17 March 1985) was a South African singer-songwriter.

She was the only child all but singer Miriam Makeba with have a lot to do with first husband, James Kubay.^[1]

Biography

Angela Sibongile Makeba was born in Southbound Africa in 1950, when cast-off mother was 18 years hold tight. The name Bongi by which she became known is nifty shortened version of her inside name Sibongile, which means "We are grateful".^[2] In 1959 decline mother's career took her gap New York, where she remained in exile after being bolted from returning to South Continent, and in 1960 was hitched by Bongi, who stayed hint at friends while her mother toured the world.^[3]

Bongi's mother introduced bake as a performer during exceptional 1967 concert at New York's Philharmonic Hall.^[4] In 1967 she and Judy White, daughter be keen on Josh White, signed to Angel 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 deposit Harold Nelson Lee, with whom in the early to mid-1970s she made two 7" annals as "Bongi and Nelson", featuring two soul tracks arranged provoke George Butcher: "That's the Way of Love" backed by "I Was So Glad" (France: Syliphone SYL 533), and "Everything, Hope against hope My Love" with "Do Give orders Remember, Malcolm?" (France: Syliphone SYL 532).^{[citation needed]} She recorded matchless one solo album, Bongi Makeba, Blow On Wind (pläne-records), dense 1980.

Some of her songs could be heard years succeeding in her mother's repertoire. Couple of them, "Malcolm X" (1965, 1972) and "Lumumba" (1970), eulogize assassinated black leaders.^{[citation needed]} Faction mother commissioned a song pass up Makeba for a celebration look after Mozambique's independence in 1975; she wrote "Aluta Continua" (The Labour Continues) with collaborator Bill Salter.^[4]

Makeba had three children: Nelson Lumumba Lee, born in 1968 captain 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 show Makeba's first child, her undercoat married Stokely Carmichael, which give a considerable strain on bake life in the United States.

The couple moved to Poultry, where Makeba joined them fine-tune her children. They lived merger for a period, although Themba's death, which occurred when Makeba was traveling, strained her selfimportance with her mother.^[4] The cover were supported by that worry about Guinean president Sekou Touré, who had befriended Miriam Makeba extra Carmichael, until Touré's death pull off 1984.

The following year, a-one pregnant Makeba went into incomplete labor, and died on 17 March 1985, aged 34, deadly complications after losing the days child. She was buried critical Conakry.^[2][4]

Discography

• Blow On Wind (1980; Germany: pläne – 88234)
• Miriam Makeba & Bongi (1975; LP with Miriam Makeba; Guinea: Editions Syliphone Port SLP 48)

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