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 ...
The 1967 global hit “Pata Pata,” sung by Johannesburg-born Zenzile Miriam Makeba, wasn’t South Africa’s freedom anthem—apartheid wouldn’t end for another 27 years—but it provided the opening riff for ...
South African anti-apartheid music legend Miriam Makeba's classic 'Pata Pata' has been re-released with new lyrics aimed at helping beat the spread of coronavirus, Unicef said Thursday. The words of ...