You say, OK, are you going to sit here, Miriam Makeba, and say 'I'm a star' and forget about home?

NPR: South African Singer Miriam Makeba Dies

Malouma Mint El Maidah, Ella Fitzgerald, Miriam Makeba, Billie Holliday, Dimi Mint Abba, Aretha Franklin and Eryka Badu are her vocalists of reference.

UNESCO: International Women's Day

Also honoured with the UN amabassadorial post are jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nobel medicine prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gina Lollobrigida and South African singer Miriam Makeba.

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Grammy award-winning South African singer Miriam Makeba has died.

NPR: South African Singer Miriam Makeba Dies