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Miriam Makeba, Brighton Dome Concert Hall, Weds May 21
4:14pm Friday 11th April 2008
Visiting the UK as a one-off for the Brighton Festival, it's no surprise that tickets to see African music's biggest world star have already sold out.
Now 75 years old, Makeba has enjoyed a dazzling five-decade career, performing her jazz-inflected gospel, pop and African folk with everyone from Nina Simone to David Bowie.
She first came to the public's attention as a vocalist with the Manhattan Brothers in 1954, before leaving to record with her all-woman group The Skylarks and in 1959, her voice won her the role of the female lead in the show, King Kong, a Broadway-inspired South African musical. She went on to conquer America, where she sang at President Kennedy's birthday and worked with Harry Belafonte.
Makeba is as celebrated for her political work as her music; in 1963 she testified about apartheid before the United Nations, resulting in the South African government revoking her citizenship and right of return.
She stayed in the States and married Stokely Carmichael, a leader of civil rights group The Black Panthers. After harassment by U.S. authorities she fled to exile in Guinea, but returned to world prominence when she performed with Paul Simon on his Graceland tour In the late 1980s she returned to her homeland as a free South African.
Makeba won the Dag Hammarskjöld Peace Prize in 1986 after serving as a Guinean delegate to the United Nations, and in 2001 was awarded the Gold Otto Hahn Peace Medal by the United Nations Association of Germany "for outstanding services to peace and international understanding".
She is joined in this concert - her first in Brighton in six years, by Sengalese kora master Seckou Keita who will also give a lunchtime concert with his Quartet on Thurs 22 May at 1pm in the Pavilion Theatre.
- Starts: 8pm, Tickets: £22, £27.50
Supported by University of Sussex and Brighton Square
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- Medeski, Martin, Wood, Dome Concert Hall, Sat May 24
- Elgar Anniversary Concert, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, Sun, May 27
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