It said in the news that she died recently, at 76 years old. It always amazes me how those people were able to sing amidst the civil riots and obvious degradation that people spoke of them in the 60's. Her voice to me brings back memories of a hope that one day we would see an African American President. Beyond imagination in those days. Just give us the right to vote and to eat in the ice cream parlors in the south and such things like that. Appartheid's voice heard here and there were beautiful and there is little sound more beautiful to me than the voice of a song in the night season. She was that voice in South Africa and America. The Grace of God allows for peace in the heart which can sing even in the sadness of inequality and injustice. Love of country and love of peace can bring hope above the sad situations which we may live in at any one time or another. There is much to rejoice in, in that our foreparents such as Miriam Makeba lived to see the turn around of appartheid in South Africa and political oppressions in the US.
Perhaps her music was a part of the change. "Faith, Hope, Love, these three, but the greatest of these is..."
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