Friday, Nov. 9, 1962
University Daily Kansan
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Folk Singer Appears Here Following Dance
Miriam Makeba — whom Time Magazine calls "the most exciting new singing talent to appear in years" — will sing tomorrow night in Hoch Auditorium.
Her hour-long performance starts at 11:30 p.m., following the Homecoming dance.
Miss Makeba appeared Tuesday before a standing room only audience at Ottawa University. She was given a standing ovation.
ONE OF THE MANY KU students attending that performance, Steve Baratz, Brooklyn, N.Y., senior, said he thought Miss Makeba was one of the best entertainers he had ever heard.
Miss Makeba's singing voice can only be described by comparing it to other singers. In lower registers she sounds like Odetta, but at mid-ranges her phrasing is more like that of Ella Fitzgerald, whose records she collected and studied as a child.
In more lyric passages, however, she impresses the listener with her tone fidelity and clear, pure notes like those of Joan Beaz.
"SHE SANG WITH the delicate phrasing of Ella Fitzgerald, the brassy showmanship of Ethel Merman and the intimate warmth of Frank Sinatra," a Newsweek reviewer once wrote.
"The standing of folk music has been further enhanced by the arrival from the Union of South Africa of Miriam Makeba," the New Yorker commented.
AFTER MISS MAKEBA'S Ottawa concert — she is currently appearing in Kansas City with the Kingston Trio — she said that she tries to understand the emotion of the song she is singing.
"The songs I sing are sometimes happy songs, sometimes sad," she said. "When I sing each I try to understand the feelings involved and to become what the song is."
Asked what she would wish for if she could be allowed her choice of anything in the world, she declined a direct answer.
"There are too many things in the world I would like to wish for," she said, smiling broadly. "I would have to have more than one wish."
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