Bongi Makeba

Bongi Makeba ( born December 20, 1950 in Pretoria, South Africa, † 1985 in Conakry, Guinea; actually Sibongile Angela Makeba ) was a singer and songwriter.

Bongi Makeba was the only child of South African singer Miriam Makeba. In New York City it was in April 1968, at the age of 17 years, the first time a mother herself; Father of their son Nelson Lumumba Lee was the American musician Nelson Lee from whom she had a daughter: Zenzi Monique Lee. Bongi Makeba accompanied her mother to Guinea, as this end of the 1960s, due to their proximity to the Black Panther movement in the United States barely got more opportunities to perform and was observed by the FBI. The family thus accepted an offer of Guinean autocrat Ahmed Sékou Touré, to which there was a friendly relationship in the sequence. At that time she wrote several songs for her mother and other South African musicians. Were on the state-owned Guinean label Syliphone in the 1970s some shots Bongis, along with her mother and her husband published. In 1980 Bongi Makeba on her only solo album, Blow On Wind, which was released outside Guineas at plans records. Died in 1985, the mother of three children under mysterious circumstances, in Guinea's capital Conakry, apparently from the effects of a caesarean section. Her son, Nelson Lumumba Lee is a musician himself. With his grandmother Miriam he took some pieces of his mother again.

Discography

Singles

• Everything, For My Love / Do You Remember, Malcolm? (1971, Syliphone SYL 532), together with husband Nelson Lee as Bongi and Nelson
• That's the kind of love / I was so glad (1971, Syliphone SYL 533), as Bongi and Nelson

Albums

• Myriam Makeba Bongi et (1975, Syliphone SLP 48), together with Miriam Makeba
• Blow on Wind (1980, plans)