Mama Africa is gone

Her song "Pata Pata" (lyrics) was a hit and still sounds warmly in our heads...











Miriam Makeba, musician and activist anti-apartheid, striked out yesterday night
by a heart attack after a concert near Naples supporting Roberto Saviano*.


(96aburns1ramnat)

More about Mama Africa.

* Roberto Saviano, the Italian author of Gomorra, now threatened with death by the camorra
for denouncing their economic empire based on racket, drug traffic and murder.
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Barack Obama, 44th President of the USA

Congrats Americans ! Yes, you can because you could !

(Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak / March 14, 2008)

After the darkness of the Bush years, America is ready to recover its place.
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Back to what G@tto said on June 4th...

The World is Waiting...

? ? ?


While waiting, imagine IF the World could vote ?
wouldn't it be great to see what the whole world thinks ?
Then blog now about "If the World could vote" !

CAST YOUR VOTE HERE...
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G@tto's now glued to (Chicago live) & the ...

at 5 am Paris time :
- Democrats got Virginia...
- Democrats got California...
- waiting for Florida...

le Président est mort, Vive le Président !
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An American voice from the Basque Country...

A few days before the US elections, the Basque press focused on...

"I've always been pro-Obama,
he's multicultural and sincere"

Very involved in the economic world
in the French Basque region, she's
- CEO of Phillips Internet Consulting,
- VP of the local Boss' union,
- VP of the Basque developement agency
and a professional singer.
However, Caroline Phillips is American
from California and...
a long sleepless night awaits her
on November 4th.


(Goizeder Taberna/Oct 31st)
INTERVIEW (fr).

Listen now to Caroline Phillips & Mixel Ducau > BIDAIA Duo...

(Bidaia on Euskal Télébista Nov. 16th 2007)
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- Caro's Bio
and some G@tto's pics from the Basque Country, here.

You're Under Arrest Gainsbourg...

"French President François Mitterrand said of him, "He was our Baudelaire, our
Apollinaire... He elevated the song to the level of art.
His home at the well-known address 5bis rue de Verneuil is still covered in graffiti
and poems".
(Wikipedia).


(avi989)
Serge Gainsbourg - You're under arrest
(Live Zenith 1989)

One more version...
(val6210)

and a third one showing stock shots from his public life and featuring
Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Rangier (the Rita Mitsouko), his
daughter Charlotte, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Birkin, Vanessa Paradis...

(damienmailis)

"Since his death (a heart attack on March 1991), Gainsbourg's music has reached
legendary stature in France. His lyrical brilliance in French has left an extraordinary
legacy. His music, always progressive, covered many styles : jazz, ballads, mambo,
lounge, reggae, pop (including adult contemporary pop, kitsch pop, yé-yé pop,
'80s pop, pop-art pop, prog pop, space-age pop, psychedelic pop, and erotic pop),
disco, calypso, Africana, bossa nova, and rock and roll.
He has gained a following in the English-speaking world with many non-mainstream
artists finding his arrangements highly influential".
(Wikipedia).
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