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Pata Pata is a 1967 album by Miriam Makeba. The album charted at number 74 in the US albums chart. [ 3 ] Most of the recordings were new, though Sivuca 's "Maria Fulo" was included again, from the previous album All About Miriam .
Makeba's "Pata Pata" was originally sung, recorded, and released in South Africa by Makeba's girl group The Skylarks [10] in either 1956 [11] or 1959. [7]In 1967, after establishing a successful singing career in the US, Makeba re-recorded the song with Jerry Ragovoy producing, and with an added spoken part in English.
Enregistrement public au Theatre des Champs-Elysées (1977) (LP) (released on CD6508 as Pata Pata: Live in Paris in 1998) Live at Berns Salonger, Stockholm, Sweden, 1966 (2003) (CD and DVD) (Gallo Music GWVCD-49)
Though "Pata Pata"—described by Musician magazine as a "groundbreaking Afropop gem" [33] —became her most famous song, Makeba described it as "one of my most insignificant songs". [34] While in England, she married Sonny Pillay, [d] a South African ballad singer of Indian descent; they divorced within a few months. [4]
Thalía co-wrote eight songs on the album, in addition, it includes two covers: the South African hit "Pata Pata" and Gloria Estefan's "Lucky Girl". The album received positive reviews and achieved two nominations at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2001 for Female Pop Vocal Album and Best Engineered Album, winning the latter one.
Homeland is final studio album by South African singer Miriam Makeba.It was released in 2000 on CD by world music label Putumayo.It includes a duet starring Makeba and Zenzi Lee in a renovated version of Makeba's trademark hit song "Pata Pata" (1967), entitled "Pata Pata 2000".
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They left to form the Comets, with Osei's brother Mac Tontoh on trumpet, [3] and scored a hit in West Africa with their 1958 song "(I Feel) Pata Pata". [2] In 1962, Osei moved to London to study music on a scholarship from the Ghanaian government. In 1964 he formed Cat's Paw, an early "world music" band that combined highlife, rock, and soul.