Miriam Makeba occupies a unique position in the realm of African music. She's blessed with a remarkably powerful voice, but it's her history of struggle as an African woman that ultimately defines her career. Getting her start with the Manhattan Brothers and later the Skylarks in 1950s South Africa, she began to perform and record with Harry Belafonte in 1959. She gained the world as a stage with Belafonte, but was eventually banished from her homeland for openly criticizing aparthe...  [+]