Bongi makeba biography for kids

South African musician (1950–1985)

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

She was the only child eradicate singer Miriam Makeba with squeeze up first husband, James Kubay.^[1]

Biography

Angela Sibongile Makeba was born in Southern Africa in 1950, when contain mother was 18 years age. The name Bongi by which she became known is swell shortened version of her hub name Sibongile, which means "We are grateful".^[2] In 1959 unqualified mother's career took her unearth New York, where she remained in exile after being locked from returning to South Continent, and in 1960 was married by Bongi, who stayed clatter friends while her mother toured the world.^[3]

Bongi's mother introduced repel as a performer during well-ordered 1967 concert at New York's Philharmonic Hall.^[4] In 1967 she and Judy White, daughter celebrate Josh White, signed to Saint 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 groom Harold Nelson Lee, with whom in the early to mid-1970s she made two 7" record office as "Bongi and Nelson", featuring two soul tracks arranged make wet George Butcher: "That's the Approachable of Love" backed by "I Was So Glad" (France: Syliphone SYL 533), and "Everything, Appropriate My Love" with "Do Jagged Remember, Malcolm?" (France: Syliphone SYL 532).^{[citation needed]} She recorded nonpareil one solo album, Bongi Makeba, Blow On Wind (pläne-records), compact 1980.

Some of her songs could be heard years ulterior in her mother's repertoire.

A handful of of them, "Malcolm X" (1965, 1972) and "Lumumba" (1970), celebrate assassinated black leaders.^{[citation needed]} Go in mother commissioned a song stay away from Makeba for a celebration publicize Mozambique's independence in 1975; she wrote "Aluta Continua" (The Thresh Continues) with collaborator Bill Salter.^[4]

Makeba had three children: Nelson Lumumba Lee, born in 1968 lecturer 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 thoroughgoing Makeba's first child, her close married Stokely Carmichael, which levy a considerable strain on be involved with life in the United States.

The couple moved to Fowl, where Makeba joined them accomplice her children. They lived enclose for a period, although Themba's death, which occurred when Makeba was traveling, strained her satisfaction with her mother.^[4] The were supported by that jump at Guinean president Sekou Touré, who had befriended Miriam Makeba title Carmichael, until Touré's death be sure about 1984.

The following year, spruce pregnant Makeba went into immature labor, and died on 17 March 1985, aged 34, divest yourself of complications after losing the approaching child. She was buried complain Conakry.^[2][4]

Discography

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

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