In 2008, Makeba had a heart attack while performing her hit song, "Pata Pata," and later died in the hospital when doctors were unable to revive her. What does "Makeba" mean?

Originally released on Reprise in 1967, Pata Pata was Miriam Makeba's first album for the label, after a period recording for RCA. She had written the title song in 1956, when she still lived in South ...

But "Makeba," the revived dance hit fueling the craze, honors a real person: famed South African activist Miriam Makeba. Who was Miriam Makeba? Makeba, also widely known as "Mama Africa," was a South ...

Meaning "touch touch" in the Xhosa language, "Pata Pata" was written by Grammy-winning singer Miriam Makeba who named it after a dance move popular in Johannesburg at the time.

(Soundbite of song, Pata Pata) Ms. MAKEBA: Pata Pata is the name of a dance we do know in Johannesburg. GORDON: That was NPR's Farai Chideya.

Once called the “world’s most defiantly joyful song”, Miriam Makeba’s ‘Pata Pata’ has been rerecorded by UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo, to spread information and hope in ...

Once called the “world’s most defiantly joyful song”, Miriam Makeba’s ‘Pata Pata’ has been re-recorded by UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo, to spread information and hope in ...

Makeba–who often said she would perform until the last day of her life–spent her final moments onstage near Naples, Italy, singing those very words: “Pata Pata is the name of a dance we do ...

Miriam only returned to South Africa thirty years later. In 1967, more than ten years after she wrote the song, "Pata Pata" was released in the United States and became a hit worldwide. It has since ...

In Vinyl Retentive, A.V. Clubbers share what we find while crate-digging in our own houses. Miriam Makeba "Pata Pata" b/w "The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men" Reprise, 1967 Format: 7-inch single File ...

That's Pata Pata, the smash hit from 1967. It's the music of South African singer-songwriter Miriam Makeba. The song is credited with introducing the United States to modern African music.