رحلت...مريــــــــم ماكبا

Quote: ROME (AFP) — Miriam Makeba, the singer who became the musical symbol of the black struggle against apartheid, has died after collapsing at a concert in Italy. She was 76. Makeba, nicknamed "Mama Africa" by a worldwide legion of fans and famed for hits such as "Pata Pata", "The Click Song", died of a heart attack in a Naples hospital after she collapsed as she left the stage at a benefit concert in Castel Volturno on Sunday. "One of the greatest songstresses of our time Miriam Makeba has ceased to sing," said South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma in a statement. The singer "died performing what she did best -- an ability to, communicate a positive message through the art of singing". Born in Johannesburg on March 4, 1932, Makeba became one of Africa's best known singers and while Nelson Mandela was in prison took up the battle against apartheid through her music. South Africa revoked her citizenship in 1960 and even refused to let her return for her mother's funeral. Makeba spent more than three decades in exile, living in the United States, Guinea and Europe. She saw her music outlawed in her homeland after she appeared in an anti-apartheid film. But she was an international success, winning a Grammy award for Best Folk Recording with US singer Harry Belafonte in 1965 for the album "An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba". "I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots," she said in her biography. "Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa, and the people, without even realising." But she also met controversy abroad. Her marriage to civil rights activist and Black Panthers leader Stokely Carmichael in 1968 caused controversy in the United States and some of her concerts were cancelled. Makeba performed for half an hour Sunday at a concert near Naples on behalf of an Italian writer, Roberto Saviano, who has received death threats after writing an expose of the Italian mafia. "She had been the last one to go on stage, after the performances of other singers," said Carlo Hermann, an AFP photographer who covered the concert and witnessed fellow singers rush to her aid when she collapsed. "There were calls for an encore and at that moment someone asked if there was a doctor in the house. Miriam Makeba had fainted and was lying on the floor." Makeba was the daughter of a Swazi mother and Xhosa father. She captured international attention as a vocalist for a South African group, The Manhattan Brothers, when they toured the United States in 1959. Her citizenship was taken away the following year. She was briefly married to trumpeter Hugh Masekela, another famous South African artist who also spent long years in exile under apartheid. Makeba had her biggest hit in 1967 with "Pata Pata" -- Xhosa for "Touch Touch", describing a township dance -- but unwittingly had signed away all royalties on the song. She was often short of money and could not afford to buy a coffin when her only daughter, Bondi, died aged 36 in 1985. She buried her alone, barring a handful of journalists from covering the funeral. According to her biography, she also battled with cervical cancer and a string of unhappy relationships. It said rumours of her alcoholism were unfounded. While she was still in enforced exile, she performed with Paul Simon in the US singer's 1987 Graceland concert in Zimbabwe, neighbouring South Africa. She finally returned to her homeland in the 1990s after Nelson Mandela was released from prison as the apartheid system they had both fought for so long began to be dismantled. But it took her six years to find someone in the South African recording industry to produce a record with her. She entitled it "Homeland

Quote: I never understood why I couldn't come home,"

حافظت على ثقافتى وموسيقى اهلي

عبر موسيقاى كنت صوت وصورة افريقيا دون حتى ان ينتبه الناس)

وقالت ماكبا قبل ان تموت لاحدى وسائل الاعلام:

In her interview in 2008, Makeba said: "I'm not a political singer. I don't know what the word means. People think I consciously decided to tell the world what was happening in South Africa. No! I was singing about my life, and in South Africa we always sang about what was happening to us — especially the things that hurt us

هى لم تكن مغنية سياسية

لكنها غنت ما يحدث حولها..

it was all about politics, and endurance









التعديل لاضافة الترجمة

(عدل بواسطة أيزابيلا on 11-10-2008, 12:11 PM)

Quote: هذه السيدة التي تحمل-فيما تحمل من جنسيات أفريقة عدة- الجواز السوداني

Quote: والتي زارت السودان عدة مرات وغنت علي المسرح القومي بأمدرمان في كل مرة أمام جمهور غفير ولقد تم تكريمها كل مرة كمناضلة شريفة تشردت بين أقطار أفريقيا وفرنسا بعد سحب جنسية بلدها منها!!!

Quote: أظن لو تابعتى بوست أطفال المايقومة (هذا الفيديو لمن فاته) لكان اجدى من شغل الناس بموت مريم ماكيبا التى ماتت ولها مدير أعمال ما يدل على أنها لم تمت وهى محرومة من الحليب ومع تقديرنا للدور الذى قامت به الا أنه رغم أن الكتابة عنها كفرض الكفاية فقد تولاه حتى الآن الكثيرون ,, وما أظن ان إهتمامك بموضوع أطفال المايقوما سيجعل ماكيبا تموت فطيس. فأرجعى للموضوع لأنه موضوع حيوى ونريد مزيدا من النقاش حوله وطلب الكثيرون معلومات حول المركز علهم يرسلون مساعداتهم

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اعدك برفع البوست

كما انبهك الى انه فتحت عدد من البوستات من قبل لدعم اطفال المايقوما وتحوى تفاصيل لطريقة الدعم وسواه

مثل (بوست الامارات) وعدد من بوستات العضو بالمنبر(نعيم)

وهو اكثرنا التصاقا بالمركز ويعرف عنه اكثر مما نعرف

ساعود لاخبرك لم انا فتحت ذاك البوست بتلك الطريقة هناك

واعتذر ان تاخرت عودتى

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حديثك عن كون ماكبا ماتت ولديها رجل اعمل ..او سواه من مظاهر الغنى وفاحش الثراء

يشعرنى بانك لم تنتبه لقضية ماكبا...لانها لم تكن الفقر على اى حال...او على الاقل...ليس الفقر وحده

شكرا على مرورك

Quote: رحيل مريم وهي علي خشبة المسرح ,,, فهذا يعني انها كانت حتي اخر رمق في حياتها تصنع البسمه في شفاه الجميع ,, لها الرحمه والمغفره ,,

Quote: وقد دكر المناضل مانديلا في مدكراته قصة دخوله لمطار الخرطوم في الستينات بدون جواز سفر بمجرد ورقة مكتوب عليها هدا الشخص هو نلسون مانديلا وكيف ان قرار دخوله بتلك الورقة قرره مجرد شرطي صغير قد يكون شاويش او جندي نفر في كاوتنر مطار الخرطوم

Quote: توفيت في ايطاليا عن 76 عاما المطربة الافريقية الجنوبية الشهيرة مريام ماكيبا. وقد توفيت ماكيبا بعد ساعات فقط من احيائها لحفل غنائي اقيم قرب مدينة كاسيرتا الايطالية الجنوبية للتضامن مع الكاتب روبرتو سافيانو مؤلف كتاب فضح فيه مافيا كامورا وتعرض نتيجة ذلك للملاحقة والتهديد. ولدت مريام ماكيبا، التي كانت تكنى بـ "ام افريقيا" في مدينة جوهانسبورج عام 1932، واضحت احد رموز النضال ضد نظام الفصل العنصري في جنوب افريقيا حيث قضت أكثر من 30 عاماً في المنفى. بدأت ماكيبا الغناء في الخمسينات من القرن الماضي حيث مزجت موسيقى الجاز مع الأغنيات التقليدية في جنوب إفريقيا. وحظيت ماكيبا بالاهتمام العالمي في عام 1959 خلال جولة في الولايات المتحدة مع المجموعة الغنائية الجنوب إفريقية "مانهاتن برذرس". وأجبرت ماكيبا على البقاء في المنفى عندما ألغي جواز سفرها بعد مشاركتها في عمل وثائقي مضاد لنظام الفصل العنصري، ولم تعد إلى جنوب إفريقيا إلا الإفراج عن نيلسون مانديلا عام 1990. وماكيبا هي أول مغنية إفريقية سوداء تفوز بجائزة ألمانية والتي تقاسمتها مع هاري بيلافونت عام 1965. وبعد انفصالها عن الموسيقى الجنوب إفريقي هوج ماسيكيلا تزوجت من ناشط الحقوق المدنية الأمريكي ستوكلي كارميشيل. وخلال إقامتها في المنفى في الولايات المتحدة أصدرت ماكيبا أشهر أغانيها مثل "بيتا بيتا" و"كلك سونج".

Quote: Biography Miriam Zenzi Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa. As a child, she sang at the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, which she attended for eight years. Makeba first toured with an amateur group. Her professional career began in the 1950s with the Manhattan Brothers, before she formed her own group, The Skylarks, singing a blend of jazz and traditional melodies of South Africa. In 1959, she performed in the musical King Kong alongside Hugh Masekela, her future husband. Though she was a successful recording artist, she was only receiving a few dollars for each recording session and no provisional royalties, and was keen to go to the US. Her break came when she starred in the anti-apartheid documentary Come Back, Africa in 1959 by independant filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. She attended the premiere of the film at the Venice Film Festival. Makeba then travelled to London where she met Harry Belafonte, who assisted her in gaining entry to and fame in the United States. She released many of her most famous hits there including "Pata Pata", "The Click Song" ("Qongqothwane" in Xhosa), and "Malaika". In 1966, Makeba received the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording together with Harry Belafonte for An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba. The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid. She discovered that her South African passport was revoked when she tried to return there in 1960 for her mother's funeral. In 1963, after testifying against apartheid before the United Nations, her South African citizenship and her right to return to the country were revoked. She has had nine passports, [3] and was granted honorary citizenship of ten countries.[4] Her marriage to Trinidadian civil rights activist and Black Panthers leader Stokely Carmichael in 1968 caused controversy in the United States, and her record deals and tours were cancelled. As a result of this, the couple moved to Guinea, where they became close with President Ahmed Sékou Touré and his wife. Makeba separated from Carmichael in 1973, and continued to perform primarily in Africa, South America and Europe. She was one of the African and Afro-American entertainers at the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in Zaïre. Makeba also served as a Guinean delegate to the United Nations, for which she won the Dag Hammarskjöld Peace Prize in 1986. After the death of her only daughter Bongi Makeba in 1985, she moved to Brussels. In 1987, she appeared in Paul Simon's Graceland tour. Shortly thereafter she published her autobiography Makeba: My Story (ISBN 0-453-00561-6). Nelson Mandela persuaded her to return to South Africa in 1990. In the fall of 1991, she made a guest appearance in an episode of The Cosby Show, entitled "Olivia Comes Out Of The Closet". In 1992 she starred in the film Sarafina!, about the 1976 Soweto youth uprisings, as the title character's mother, "Angelina." She also took part in the 2002 documentary Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony where she and others recalled the days of apartheid. In January 2000, her album, Homeland, produced by Cedric Samson and Michael Levinsohn[5] was nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best World Music" category[6]. In 2001 she was awarded the Gold Otto Hahn Peace Medal by the United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN) in Berlin, "for outstanding services to peace and international understanding". In 2002, she shared the Polar Music Prize with Sofia Gubaidulina. In 2004, Makeba was voted 38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans. Makeba started a worldwide farewell tour in 2005, holding concerts in all of those countries that she had visited during her working life. [4] Her publicist notes that Makeba had suffered "severe arthritis" for some time.[7] She suffered an onstage heart attack in Castel Volturno, near Caserta, Italy, on 9 November 2008, while taking part in a concert organized to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation. Makeba died shortly afterwards.[8][9][10] In his condolence message, former South African president Nelson Mandela said it was “fitting that Makeba died doing what she did best - singing.”

(عدل بواسطة خالد العبيد on 11-11-2008, 00:21 AM)

Quote: فمريم ماكبا تقيم حفلا جماهيريا لاول مرة على هذا المسرح