Google doodle celebrates Miriam Makeba’s 81st Birthday

August 25, 2013 Parshuram Shalgar Technology 0

Monday’s Google doodle featured Miriam Makeba celebrating her 81st birthday. She was born on Mar. 4, 1932, in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was named Zenzile Miriam Makeba.

She was a well-known singer and actress. Her song ‘Pata Pata ’, released in the year 1956, got great appreciation.

According to the reports, the early years of Makeba were not so good. She spent the initial six months of her life in jail as her mother got imprisoned for selling illegal beer. At this time, Makeba was just eighteen years old. When Makeba was six years old, her father died.

The Grammy Award winner for Best Folk Recording, Makeba began singing when she was very young. She sang in the choir of her primary school.

Manhattan Brothers, a South African jazz group, gave her a professional break in the 1950s. Later, she left the Manhattan Brothers and went on to record with her all-woman group, The Skylarks.

She also acted as a social activist; in the year 1963, she raised her voice against apartheid in South Africa before the United Nations.

Miriam Makeba died in November 2008 at the age of 76 due to a heart-attack leaving behind a bequest of civil rights policy around the world.