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...United Nations ages ago, before it was even fashionable," said the South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka of Miriam Makeba, who died Nov. 10 at 76. The first African woman to win a Grammy, Makeba, known affectionately as "Mama Africa," traveled to New York City in 1963. She appeared before the U.N.'s special committee on apartheid to plead for intervention in South Africa. Her nation repaid Makeba by exiling her until 1990, when President Nelson Mandela personally asked her to return...
Though much of Makeba's influence resulted from her political involvement and her topical lyrics, she shied away from the term political singer. Makeba said in an interview, "I was singing about my life, and in South Africa we always sang about what was happening to us--especially the things that hurt...
...quite live up to that standard. The “photographic explorations” of a teenage girl are just as at home as a monograph of paintings, as is a collection of biographical drawings, as are tracks from a band called Hooded Figures, whose founder and lead singer is a 10-year-old named Lula (great stuff, actually).It’s certainly odd, then, that in light of all of this, my mind turns once again to the words of Susan Sontag, who once wrote that the advent of photography had forced people to develop...
...told the audience in between songs, “and then I found out all of the other acts actually had a band.”“So I asked my roommate Julie and Luke from the Frisbee team,” the singer-songwriter said.“Luke from the Frisbee team”–Luke L. Sperduto ’11–accompanied O’Neill’s vocals on the guitar and then added a harmonica, much to the crowd’s delight.For the last song...
Since graduating from Harvard, singer-songwriter Pauley has been playing more than 150 shows a year in venues across the country, from New York City’s “The Living Room,” to Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, and Cambridge’s own Club Passim, where she got her start at open-mic nights as a freshman...