| An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte |
| Cover: | An Evening With Belafonte Makeba.jpg |
| Released: | 1965 |
| Recorded: | RCA Victor Studio A, New York City |
| Genre: | World music |
| Label: | RCA Victor |
| Producer: | Andy Wiswell |
| Chronology: | Harry Belafonte |
| Prev Title: | Ballads, Blues and Boasters |
| Prev Year: | 1964 |
| Next Title: | An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri |
| Next Year: | 1966 |
An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba is a Grammy Award-winning 1965 album by Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba, released by RCA Victor. It was the second outcome of the long lasting collaboration between Belafonte and Makeba, the first being the appearance of Makeba in the song "One More Dance" on Belafonte's 1960 album, Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall.
Despite the title, the album is not a collection of live duet performances by Harry Belafonte and Makeba. It is a studio album of 12 tracks, five by Belafonte, five by Makeba, and two duets. The songs are all African traditional tunes sung in tribal languages like Xhosa and Zulu.
In the mid-1960s, Belafonte was very active in supporting emerging African artists as well as making African music known worldwide, and this album is an example of this activity. It includes classical African songs like Malaika (with the English title My Angel) as well as songs in African languages such as Zulu, Sotho and Swahili.
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