* Khoisan, Zenzile.

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

Miriam Makeba ( 4 March 1932 – 10 November 2008 ), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist.

The misery of Miriam's bitterness can be felt today by anyone who studies the case -- it was hopeless, agonizing, and destructive, with Miriam herself bearing the heaviest burden of shame and pain.

To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.

Miriam was stopped at the Taliesin gate, and William Weston, now the estate foreman, came out to parley.

He said that Mr. Wright was not in, and so could not be arrested on something called a peace warrant that Miriam was waving in the air.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

In a few weeks Miriam made another sortie at Taliesin, but was repulsed at the locked and guarded gates.

While Moses was receiving his education at the Egyptian royal court, and during his exile among the Midianites, Aaron and his sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the eastern border-land of Egypt ( Goshen ).

The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed midwives to throw male children into the Nile, Amram divorced Jochebed, who was three months pregnant with Moses at the time, arguing that there was no justification for the Israelite men to father children if they were just to be killed ; however, the text goes on to state that Miriam, his daughter, chided him for his lack of care for his wife's feelings, persuading him to recant and marry Jochebed again.

* Clara Petacci's sister was actress Miriam di San Servolo ( 31 May 1923 – 24 May 1991 ), also known as Miriam Petacci or Miriam Day.

On the coming of his age, Gregory married a woman called Miriam a devout Christian who was the daughter of a Christian Armenian Prince in Cappadocia.

Moses ' sister Miriam observed the progress of the tiny boat until it reached a place where Pharaoh's daughter ( Bithiah, Thermuthis ) was bathing with her handmaidens.

Miriam was punished with leprosy for seven days.

It was to star Miriam Cooper, but when she left the Griffith company the plans were dropped ; he would ultimately film Broken Blossoms instead.

* Rashi's middle daughter, Miriam, married Judah ben Nathan, who completed the commentary on Talmud Makkot which Rashi was working on when he died.

The first performance in English was at Covent Garden on 26 July 1919, with Miriam Licette as Yaroslvna.

A mountaintop shrine of Moses ' sister Miriam was still shown to pilgrims at the time of Jerome in the 4th century, but its location has not been identified since.