Another great one gone

Bloomberg.com has an article by Nicky Smith about the death of Miriam Makeba:

Miriam Makeba, the South African recording artist exiled from her own country during apartheid, died of a heart attack last night after giving a concert in Italy. She was 76. The Grammy-winning Makeba "collapsed as she was leaving the stage", South African Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said in a statement today. Makeba, who brought the music of her continent to a global audience in the 1960s, had been performing at the Vastel Volturno in the province of Caserta, near Naples. "One of the greatest songstresses of our time, Miriam Makeba, has ceased to sing,'' Dlamini Zuma said. "South Africa's goodwill ambassador died performing what she did best -- an ability to communicate a positive message through the art of singing.''
Makeba, born on 4 March 1932, has been credited with making South African folk music familiar to a global audience. In 1962, she sang at John F. Kennedy's birthday party at Madison Square Garden. Her best known songs were the Click Song, Qongoqothwane in her native language of isiXhosa, which she described as a 'Xhosa wedding song', and Pata Pata, which means Touch Touch. The latter was a hit in the US in 1967.
"The sudden passing of our beloved Miriam has saddened us and our nation,'' South African Former President Nelson Mandela said in a statement today.
She won a Grammy in 1966 for a folk-music album she recorded with Harry Belafonte. Her marriage to Stokely Carmichael, a Trinidadian black power activist, stirred controversy. She and Carmichael moved to Guinea. Makeba later represented the country at the United Nations.
Makeba had been performing at a concert for Roberto Saviano, an Italian journalist who wrote the book Gomorrah exposing the workings of the Neapolitan mafia known as the Camorra. Saviano has had his life threatened and has been granted an armed bodyguard by the district in Naples where he lives.
"It was fitting that her last moments were spent on a stage, enriching the hearts and lives of others - and in support of a good cause,'' Mandela said.