Miriam Makeba

2 wins & 8 nominations. See more awards »

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Transamerica Soundtrack

(2005)

Sarafina! Angelina

(1992)

Bobby Soundtrack

(2006)

The Deal Soundtrack

(2008)

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Actress (4 credits)

1992 Sarafina!
Angelina

1989 Have You Seen Drum Recently?

1983 Amok
Joséphine Sempala

1962 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
Folk Singer

- Episode #15.32 (1962) ... Folk Singer

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Composer (3 credits)

2009/I Help (Short)

2002 Baba Mandela (Documentary)

1983 Amok

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Music department (1 credit)

2009/I Help (Short) (musician: vocals)

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Soundtrack (36 credits)

Mr. Corman (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2021) (writer - 1 episode, 2021)

- Good Luck (2021) ... (performer: "Pata Pata" - uncredited) / (writer: "Pata Pata" - uncredited)

2020 Nice Jazz Festival (TV Special) (lyrics: "Pata Pata") / (music: "Pata Pata")

2019 Poms (performer: "Pata Pata") / (writer: "Pata Pata")

2018 Chacrinha: O Velho Guerreiro (writer: "Pata Pata")

2018 High & Dry (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- The Rescue (2018) ... (performer: "The Naughty Little Flea")

2018 Atlanta (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Helen (2018) ... (performer: "My Angel (Malaika)" - uncredited)

2016 Call the Midwife (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Christmas Special (2016) ... (performer: "Pata Pata" - uncredited)

2016 A United Kingdom (performer: "Pula Kgosi Seretse") / (writer: "Pula Kgosi Seretse")

Morfi, todos a la mesa (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2016) (writer - 1 episode, 2016)

- Episode dated 6 April 2016 (2016) ... (performer: "Pata Pata") / (writer: "Pata Pata")

2015 The Demons (performer: "Pata Pata") / (writer: "Pata Pata")

2015 Ayanda (arranger: "House of the Rising Sun") / (performer: "House of the Rising Sun")

2014 United Passions (performer: "Pata Pata")

2013 Half of a Yellow Sun (performer: "Naughty Little Flea")

2013 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (lyrics: "Mayibuye") / (music: "Mayibuye") / (performer: "Amampondo", "Mayibuye")

2013 Aya of Yop City (performer: "L'enfant et la gazelle")

Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (performer - 2 episodes, 2012) (writer - 1 episode, 2012)

- Have You Heard from Johannesburg: The Bottom Line (2012) ... (performer: "Soweto Blues")

- Have You Heard from Johannesburg: The Road to Resistance (2012) ... (performer: "Ndodemny Ama (Beware,Verwoerd!)") / (writer: "Ndodemny Ama (Beware,Verwoerd!)")

2012 Hazel (Short) (performer: "Pata Pata") / (writer: "Pata Pata")

2011 Los nuevos y clásicos bloopers (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Episode dated 27 March 2011 (2011) ... (performer: "Pata Pata")

2011 Mama Africa (Documentary) (performer: "Soweto Blues", "Qogothwane (The Click Song)", "Pata Pata")

2011 Sing Your Song (Documentary) (performer: "Into Yam", "Love Tastes Like Strawberries", "Malayisha", "Nongoongod (To Those We Love)") / (writer: "Into Yam", "Malayisha", "Nongoongod (To Those We Love)")

2008 Soul Power (Documentary) (performer: "The Click Song")

2008/I The Deal (performer: "Pata Pata") / (writer: "Pata Pata")

2007 The World Unseen (performer: "Baby Ntsoare")

2007 Piano, solo (performer: "My Angel - Malaika")

2007 Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (Documentary) (performer: "Pata Pata") / (writer: "Pata Pata")

2006/I Bobby (performer: "Pata Pata") / (writer: "Pata Pata")

2006 His Big White Self (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "The Click Song", "Emabhaceni") / (writer: "Emabhaceni")

2005 Transamerica (performer: "Jol'inkomo")

2004 Veronica Mars (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Pilot (2004) ... (performer: "Pata Pata" - uncredited)

2000 Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm (lyrics: "Dummasack") / (music: "Dummasack")

1997-1998 Tohuwabohu (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)

- Best & rest 8-26: Halb hundertvier (1998) ... (performer: "Pata Pata" - uncredited)

- Tohu-Nacht Revue 1990-1997 (1997) ... (performer: "Pata Pata" - uncredited)

1996 When We Were Kings (Documentary) (performer: "Am Am Pondo") / (writer: "Am Am Pondo")

1992 Una estación de paso (performer: "Pata Pata") / (writer: "Pata Pata")

1992 Sarafina! (performer: "Thank You Mama")

1973 A Warm December (lyrics: "NONQONQO") / (music: "NONQONQO")

1968 Monterey Pop (Documentary) (writer: "Bajabula Bonke (The Healing Song)")

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Thanks (2 credits)

2011 Mama Africa (Documentary) (in memory of)

2008 Soul Power (Documentary) (in memory of)

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Self (50 credits)

2012 Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams (Documentary)
Self

2006 Soweto Blues (Documentary)
Musician 6

2002 Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony (Documentary)
Self

2000 Sacred Sounds (Documentary)
Self

2000 Tutti gli Zeri del mondo (TV Mini Series)
Self

- Episode #1.4 (2000) ... Self

1996 When We Were Kings (Documentary)
Self

1995 African Footsteps (TV Series documentary)
Self - Interviewee

1993 Children of Africa (TV Special)
Self

1993 Le cercle de minuit (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 8 December 1993 (1993) ... Self

1993 American Masters (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time (1993) ... Self

1991 The Cosby Show (TV Series)
Self

- Olivia Comes Out of the Closet (1991) ... Self

1988 Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Journey of Dreams (Video)
Self (uncredited)

1988 Voices of Sarafina! (Documentary)
Self

1988 Exiles (TV Mini Series documentary)
Self

- Miriam Makeba: South African Singer (1988) ... Self

1988 Freedomfest: Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Celebratation (TV Special documentary)
Self

1988 Ebony/Jet Showcase (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 20 May 1988 (1988) ... Self

1988 Wogan (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #8.11 (1988) ... Self

1987 Paul Simon, Graceland: The African Concert (TV Special documentary)
Self

1984 Àngel Casas Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.42 (1984) ... Self

1982 Bio's Bahnhof (TV Series)
Self - Musician

- Episode dated 9 September 1982 (1982) ... Self - Musician

1979 Numéro un (TV Series)
Self

- Enrico Macias (1979) ... Self

1977 Musique and Music (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 25 September 1977 (1977) ... Self

1974 Top à... (TV Series)
Self

- Jean Piat (1974) ... Self

1974 Ein Kessel Buntes (TV Series)
Self - Musician

- Episode #1.14 (1974) ... Self - Musician

1973 Miriam Makeba (Short)
Self

1973 9 Tage des Jahres (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1973 Rund nach dem X. (TV Movie documentary)
Self - Musician

1972 Soul! (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 5 January 1972 (1972) ... Self

1965-1970 The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series)
Self / Self - South African Folksinger

- Episode #9.185 (1970) ... Self - South African Folksinger

- Episode #7.215 (1968) ... Self

- Episode #7.131 (1968) ... Self

- Episode #7.110 (1968) ... Self

- Episode #5.76 (1965) ... Self

1969-1970 The David Frost Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #2.172 (1970) ... Self

- Episode #2.58 (1969) ... Self

1970 It's Pata Pata Time - Miriam Makeba singt Lieder aus Afrika und Amerika (TV Movie)
Self - Musician

1969 Festival panafricain d'Alger (Documentary)
Self

1969 Miriam Makeba: We Will Win (TV Special short)
Self

1969 Together (TV Movie)
Self - Singer

1968 The Joey Bishop Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #2.138 (1968) ... Self

- Episode #2.86 (1968) ... Self

1968 The Woody Woodbury Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 16 February 1968 (1968) ... Self

1965-1967 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
Self - Singer

- Jay & the Techniques, Buddy Rich, Rodney Dangerfield, Miriam Makeba, Vikki Carr, George Kirby (1967) ... Self - Singer

- Episode #18.18 (1965) ... Self - Singer

1967 International Cabaret (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #2.23 (1967) ... Self

1966 The Lloyd Thaxton Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #4.187 (1966) ... Self

1965 Tonight in Person (TV Series)
Self

- Special Edition (1965) ... Self

- Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela (1965) ... Self

1965 Gypsy (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.97 (1965) ... Self

1964-1965 The Hollywood Palace (TV Series)
Self / Self - Singer

- Episode #2.28 (1965) ... Self

- Episode #1.4 (1964) ... Self - Singer

1965 The Les Crane Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.79 (1965) ... Self

1964 The Garry Moore Show (TV Series)
Self

- Vicki Carr, Miriam Makeba, Allan Sherman, The Hi Lo's (1964) ... Self

1963-1964 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Jimmy Breslin, Jack Douglas and wife Reiko (1964) ... Self - Guest

- George Jessel, Miriam Makeba, Robert Merrill (1963) ... Self - Guest

- Phil Foster, Paula Prentiss, Robert Berks, Miriam Makeba (1963) ... Self - Guest

- Jerry Van Dyke, Oleg Cassini, Eleanor Harris, Miriam Makeba (1963) ... Self - Guest

- Darren McGavin, Rose Marie, Miriam Makeba (1963) ... Self - Guest

1960-1963 Today (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 7 November 1963 (1963) ... Self

- Episode dated 22 April 1960 (1960) ... Self

1962 President Kennedy's Birthday Salute (TV Movie)
Self

1961 Look Up and Live (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Songs of Searching (1961) ... Self

1959 The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV Series)
Self - Singer

- Tony Randall, Buddy Hackett, Miriam Makeba, Jo Stafford (1959) ... Self - Singer

1959 Come Back, Africa (Documentary)
Miriam

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Archive footage (8 credits)

Livicated (Documentary) (post-production)
Self

2018 ReMastered: The Lion's Share (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2012 Un giorno in pretura (TV Series)
Self

- Il clan dei Casalesi. Il giorno dopo (2012) ... Self

2011 Mama Africa (Documentary)
Self

2011 Sing Your Song (Documentary)
Self (uncredited)

2010 MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) 2010 (TV Special)
Self

2008 Soul Power (Documentary)
Self

2006 La imagen de tu vida (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.12 (2006) ... Self

Personal Details

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Album: "Miriam Makeba" See more »

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Spouse:

Stokely Carmichael (divorced) | See more »

Children:

Bongi Makeba Lee

Parents:

Makeba, Caewell | Makeba, Christina

Relatives:

Nelson Lumumba Lee (grandchild) | See more »

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Her real name, as she clarifies in the 29 February 1960 issue of Time magazine is: Zensile Makeba Qgwashu Nguvama Yiketheli Nxgowa Bantana Balomzi Xa Ufnu Ubajabulisa Ubaphekeli Mbiza Yotshwala Sithi Xa Saku Qgiba Ukutja Sithathe Izitsha Sizi Khabe Singama Lawu Singama Qgwashu Singama Nqamla Nqgithi. "The reason for its length, " Ms. Makeba writes, "is that every child takes the first name of all... See more »

Nickname:

Mama Africa

Star Sign:

Pisces

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