At the 2024 Grammy Awards, Africa has its own category ... in the 1960s was the stellar Miriam Makeba. She won in 1966 for her album An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba but the win was in the ...

The first Grammy Awards ceremony was in 1959, the same year South African star Miriam Makeba first toured the US. In 1960 the Best Folk Performance category was added. This was the key.

During her successful career, Makeba took home a Grammy award. With the end of apartheid, Makeba was finally able to return to South Africa in 1990 for a six-day stay. In 1992, she performed ...

African artists with major US industry support get new advantage at the Grammy with the introduction of a new category of ...