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	MIRIAM MAKEBA SINGER, DIES AT 76

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11-10-2008 11:51 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e722d024-c937-4e69-b56a-3daeb5463323/DE11FCBB-D42E-412A-A795-79CD1CCD4A73/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/africa/11makeba.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au&oref=slogin" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/africa/11makeba.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au&oref=slogin" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/africa/11makeba.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au&oref=slogin"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0">
Miriam Makeba, Singer, Dies at 76
</NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/africa/11makeba.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au&oref=slogin"><P>Ms. Makeba collapsed as she was leaving the stage, the South African authorities said. She had been singing at a concert in support of Roberto Saviano, an author who has received death threats after writing about organized crime. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/africa/11makeba.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au&oref=slogin"><P>The cause of death was cardiac arrest, according to Vincenza Di Saia, a physician at  the private Pineta Grande clinic  in Castel Volturno  near Naples in southern Italy, where she was brought by ambulance. The time of death was listed in hospital records as midnight, the doctor said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/africa/11makeba.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au&oref=slogin"><P>LONDON — Miriam Makeba, a South African singer whose voice stirred hopes of freedom among millions in her own country though her music was formally banned by the apartheid authorities she struggled against, died overnight after performing at a concert in Italy on Sunday. She was 76.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/africa/11makeba.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au&oref=slogin"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/232D90C6-8CD0-4086-A41A-B24284B55F3F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/africa/11makeba.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au&oref=slogin"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/0E368269-4B82-4CC0-A4B2-A2B978A5EB3E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/africa/11makeba.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au&oref=slogin"><P class="caption">
Miriam Makeba performed in a concert on Sunday night in southern Italy shortly before she died early Monday. 
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