Category: Miriam Makeba

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Sonia Pottinger: Jamaica’s First Female Record Producer

Trailblazing, by definition, can be a lonely enterprise — but someone has to move civilization forward. Therefore, hats off to Jamaica’s first woman music producer, Sonia Pottinger, who managed to navigate a path through a field that is still overwhelmingly dominated by men and left future generations a legacy of

January 9, 2015 No Comments

"Click Song #1"

“Click Song #1”: African Pop Goes International

Is it really true what Wikipedia says about Miriam Makeba – that she’s the “first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world”? Given that Makeba released her first U.S. album in 1960, one can only conclude that African pop, essentially, had no American distribution links until the

August 4, 2014 No Comments