Miriam Makeba Pata Pata (2xLP)

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• The album marked a significant international breakthrough for Makeba. Moving to the US after the anti-apartheid film Come Back, Africa gained international attention and staying there in exile, she quickly built her career in New York during the 60s, mentored by Harry Belafonte. Signing with Reprise after a period with RCA, she returned to one of her older hits with the Skylarks: I wrote Pata Pata back in 1956, back in South Africa, remembered Makeba in her autobiography. It was a fun little song and I was thinking of a dance that we do at home (pata means touch in Zuluand Xhosa). Originally a hit in South Africa with her early vocal harmony group the Skylarks, the new recording, produced by Jerry Ragovoy, brought a lighter uptempo RnB arrangement, adding some English lyrics. It was my first truly big seller. All of a sudden, people