Each of FAO ’ s Goodwill Ambassadors – celebrities from the arts, entertainment, sport and academia such as Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gong Li, the late singer Miriam Makeba, and soccer players Roberto Baggio and Raúl, to name a few – has made a personal and professional commitment to FAO ’ s vision: a food-secure world for present and future generations.

** Miriam Makeba, South African singer ( d. 2008 )

In 1992, she starred alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba and John Kani in Darrell James Roodt ’ s film version of Sarafina !, which had a worldwide distribution, and became the biggest film production to be released on the African continent.

During the 1960s he introduced several artists to American audiences, most notably South African singer Miriam Makeba and Greek singer Nana Mouskouri.

However, The Cosby Show had African-American themes, such as the Civil Rights Movement, and it frequently promoted African-American and African culture represented by artists and musicians such as Jacob Lawrence, Miles Davis, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Miriam Makeba.

Having failed to secure Marcus Miller as bass guitarist, he selected Victor Bailey ( a recent graduate from the Berklee College of Music whom Hakim had played with while backing Miriam Makeba ).

King, Miriam Makeba, The Spinners, Bill Withers, The Crusaders, and Manu Dibango as documented in the 2008 film Soul Power.

His company, Gallo Record Company, remains the largest and most successful label in South Africa, having had acclaimed artists such as Solomon Linda, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba, Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens and many more pass through the recording studios.

The decade has seen the rise of Xhosa singer Simphiwe Dana, whose success has seen her hailed as the " new Miriam Makeba ", with her unique combination of jazz, pop, and traditional music.

** Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba for An Evening With Belafonte / Makeba

René has performed and recorded as a leader and featured sideman with the crème de la crème of Black Musical tradition, to name a few — Jackie McLean, the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Lionel Hampton-All Stars, Tito Puente Orchestra, Horace Silver, Woody Shaw, Dr. Bill Taylor, Baba Olatunji, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Dexter Gordon, James Moody, Yusef Lateef, Jaco Pastorius, Jerry Gonzales ' Forte Apache Band, Hamza El Din, as well as in collaboration with premier poet-activist Amiri Baraka ( Leroi Jones ).

In 1969, he and his then-wife, the South African singer Miriam Makeba, moved to Guinea-Conakry where he became an aide to Guinean prime minister Ahmed Sékou Touré and the student of exiled Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah.

She sang with Miriam Makeba and Ras Michael, and the Sons of Negus.

It was covered internationally by many 1950s pop and folk revival artists, including The Weavers, Jimmy Dorsey, Yma Sumac, Miriam Makeba, and The Kingston Trio.

South Africa has produced world-famous jazz musicians, notably Hugh Masekela, Jonas Gwangwa, Abdullah Ibrahim, Miriam Makeba, Jonathan Butler, Chris McGregor, and Sathima Bea Benjamin.

Bella Bellow is Togo's best-known musician, and is often compared with South Africa's Miriam Makeba.

Category: Miriam Makeba songs

** Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba for An Evening With Belafonte / Makeba

Early artists included Miriam Makeba, Dolly Rathebe and Letta Mbulu.

In addition to Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens, singing stars such as Miriam Makeba, Dolly Rathebe and Letta Mbulu ( who had all began as marabi stars during the ' 50s ) created a large base of fans, as did the Dark City Sisters and the Soul Brothers.

It has also been recorded by Paul Simon and Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Boom Shaka, Osibisa, Oliver Mtukudzi ( the Shona version that was once the anthem of Zimbabwe ) and the Mahotella Queens.

Category: Miriam Makeba songs

The study lead by Dr. Miriam J. Laugesen, of Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and colleagues at UCLA and the University of Illinois, shows that for services provided between 1994 and 2010, CMS agreed with 87. 4 % of the recommendations of the committee, known as RUC or the Relative Value Update Committee.

In an episode of In our time broadcast on Thu, 20 Oct 2005, 21: 30 on BBC Radio 4, Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Warwick ; Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford ; and John Moles, Professor of Latin, University of Newcastle discussed with Melvyn Bragg the idea that Antisthenes and Diogenes in ancient Greece practiced a form of performance art and that they acquired the epithet of cynic which means " dog " due to Diogenes behaving repeatedly like a dog in his performances.

Friedan was born Bettye Naomi Goldstein on February 4, 1921 in Peoria, Illinois, to Harry and Miriam ( Horwitz ) Goldstein, whose Jewish families were from Russia and Hungary.

* Miriam Schneir, " Stone Miscast ," The Nation, November 4, 1996.

* Dexter, Miriam Robbins & Goode, Starr, " The Sheela na gigs, Sexuality, and the Goddess in Ancient Ireland ", Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, 4 ( 2 ), Mary Condren, ed., ( 2002 ), 50-75

Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg on 4 March 1932.

" The Music of Miriam Gideon ", American Composers Bulletin 7 / 4, 4.

A 2, 000-pound bomb was dropped on his house, also killing his 4 wives ( Hiam ' Abdul Rahman Rayan, 46 ; Iman Khalil Rayan, 46 ; Nawal Isma ' il Rayan, 40 ; and Sherine Sa ' id Rayan, 25 ) and 11 of their children ( As ' ad, 2 ; Usama Ibn Zaid, 3 ; ' Aisha, 3 ; Reem, 4 ; Miriam, 5 ; Halima, 5 ; ' Abdul Rahman, 6 ; Abdul Qader, 12 ; Aaya, 12 ; Zainab, 15 ; and Ghassan, 16 ).

4, Miriam is said to be Hur's mother, asserting that Ephrath was another name for Miriam.

Bezalel is said to have been only thirteen years of age when he accomplished his great work ( Sanhedrin 69b ); he owed his wisdom to the merits of pious parents ; his grandfather being Hur and his grandmother Miriam, he was thus a grandnephew of Moses ( Exodus R. 48: 3, 4 ).

On May 4, 1939, James Blackwood married Miriam ( Mim ) Grantham.

His wife, Miriam, also died in Palo Alto, 28 years later, in March 2000.

She co-starred with Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins in Rouben Mamoulian's original 1931 film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Also in an interview with Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago by the Philippine Star in March 25, 2012 she shared her experience as a speech writer to President Marcos: " one time, the Secretary of Justice forgot to tell me that the President had requested him to draft a speech that the President was going to deliver before graduates of the law school.

As soon as the results of the March 9, 2008 primaries were announced, NPP's Second Vice President, Miriam Ramírez de Ferrer, announced her immediate resignation, saying " Effectively right now I am no longer the Second Vice President of this party.

" The play was adapted into a film in 1933, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht, and starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins.

The play was adapted into a pre-Hays code comedy film in 1933, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht, starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins and Edward Everett Horton.

Miriam Waddington ( née Dworkin, 23 December 1917 – 3 March 2004 ) was a Canadian poet, short story writer and translator.

* All of Me ( 1934 ) with Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins ( Raft 3rd billed )

In March 2006, following her death, the name of the Fund was changed in her memory to the Miriam Rothschild Schizophrenia Research Fund.

The leading role of Sabina was originated by Tallulah Bankhead ; when she left the production in March 1943, she was replaced by Miriam Hopkins.

Adelson and his wife, Miriam Adelson, were presented with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution on March 25, 2008.

The film moves on to show segments with Paramount players of the 1931-32 season, including George Bancroft, Nancy Carroll, the Four Marx Brothers, Charles Rogers, Clive Brook, Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Eleanor Boardman, Frances Dee, Jackie Searl, Kay Francis, Judith Wood, Regis Toomey, Peggy Shannon, Jackie Coogan, Lilyan Tashman, Eugene Pallette, Anna May Wong, Juliette Compton, Stuart Erwin, William Boyd, Miriam Hopkins, Wynne Gibson, Jack Oakie, Ginger Rogers, Robert Coogan, Carmen Barnes, Charlie Ruggles, Richard ' Skeets ' Gallagher, Mitzi Green, Richard Arlen, Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Paul Lukas, Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Ruth Chatterton, Marlene Dietrich, and Maurice Chevalier.

* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins

* New York Genealogical and Biographical Record ( 1881, vol 12 ) p. 79 marriage of David Smith and Miriam Carle, March 25, 1735

Marion " Peanuts " Byron ( born Miriam Bilenkin ; March 16, 1911 – July 5, 1985 ) was a petite, plucky American movie comedienne.