Post by mikeralls on Nov 10, 2008 13:45:32 GMT -5
"JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – She died just how she wanted to — singing on stage for a good cause. And her songs wafted out of taxis and radios, as fellow Africans struggled with their grief at her passing.
Miriam Makeba, the "Mama Africa" whose sultry voice gave South Africans hope when the country was gripped by apartheid, died early Monday of a heart attack after collapsing on stage in Italy. She was 76.
In her dazzling career, Makeba performed with musical legends from around the world — jazz maestros Nina Simone and Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon — and sang for world leaders such as John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela."
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081110/ap_on_re_af/eu_obit_makeba;_ylt=AmJX1arbR1mqBjE1pip0TKFvaA8F
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The old joke is that one wants to die from a shotgun wound from a jealous husband of a beautiful 20 year old, but there are certainly worse ways to go then doing a job you love.
I had two grandma's die in the course of a year, one in a hospital hooked up to tons of tubes, the other in her home surrounded by her grandkids. No doubt in my mind of which way I would want to go, but the above scenario doesn't sound that bad either.
How about you'll? How do you want to go?
Miriam Makeba, the "Mama Africa" whose sultry voice gave South Africans hope when the country was gripped by apartheid, died early Monday of a heart attack after collapsing on stage in Italy. She was 76.
In her dazzling career, Makeba performed with musical legends from around the world — jazz maestros Nina Simone and Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon — and sang for world leaders such as John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela."
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081110/ap_on_re_af/eu_obit_makeba;_ylt=AmJX1arbR1mqBjE1pip0TKFvaA8F
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The old joke is that one wants to die from a shotgun wound from a jealous husband of a beautiful 20 year old, but there are certainly worse ways to go then doing a job you love.
I had two grandma's die in the course of a year, one in a hospital hooked up to tons of tubes, the other in her home surrounded by her grandkids. No doubt in my mind of which way I would want to go, but the above scenario doesn't sound that bad either.
How about you'll? How do you want to go?
