She will be missed. She was a family friend. For those of you who don't know, she was a singer in South Africa during apartheid times. She represented triumph amongst people that were segregated and endured hardship because they were black.
According to CNN "The first African woman to win a Grammy award, Makeba started singing in Sophiatown, a cosmopolitan neighborhood of Johannesburg that was a cultural hotspot in the 1950s before its black residents were forcibly removed by the apartheid government".
According to CNN "The first African woman to win a Grammy award, Makeba started singing in Sophiatown, a cosmopolitan neighborhood of Johannesburg that was a cultural hotspot in the 1950s before its black residents were forcibly removed by the apartheid government".