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Miriam Makeba, Singer, Dies at 76

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

November 11, 2008 Miriam Makeba, Singer, Dies at 76 By ALAN COWELL NY Times LONDON ? Miriam Makeba, a South African singer whose voice stirred hopes of freedom among millions in her own country though her music was formally banned by the apartheid authorities she struggled against, died overnight after performing at a concert in Italy on Sunday. She was 76. The cause of death was cardiac arrest, according to Vincenza Di Saia, a physician at the private Pineta Grande clinic in Castel Volturno near Naples in southern Italy, where she was brought by ambulance. The time of death was listed in hospital records as midnight, the doctor said. Ms. Makeba collapsed as she was leaving the stage, the South African authorities said. She had been singing at a concert in support of Roberto Saviano, an author who has received death threats after writing about organized crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).