Pata pata

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Pata Pata is a song by Miriam Makeba and Jerry Ragovoy that the South African singer released in 1967. It goes back to the song Iyo Pata-Pata by Dorothy Masuka .

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Phata Phata or Pata Pata is the name of a dance that was very popular in South Africa in the mid-1950s. “It was an individualized, sexually suggestive form of the Jive dance style of the young people, with the dance partners alternately touching each other with their hands over their entire body to the rhythm of the music.” Pata translates as “touching, touching”. In addition to the song by Dorothy Masuka there were other songs of the same name about the 1959 of Makeba singing group The Skylarks with the Kwela -Flötisten Spokes Mashiyane rehearsed Kwela Song Miriam and Spokes Phatha Phatha Reggie Msomi.

Pata Pata became Makeba's greatest international musical success. The song became an international hit in 1967 when it was released on the album of the same name in the United States. The song made it to number 12 in the US charts and number 14 in the German charts. The text is mainly in isiXhosa , now one of the eleven official languages ​​in the Republic of South Africa, and is about a South African dance. The English lines of the text indicate that Pata Pata is a popular dance in Johannesburg . Pata Pata has been covered by numerous artists and can be found on many samplers.

Makeba recorded the track twice in the studio, including in 1989 on her album Welela. On their album Homeland , released in 2000, the title is included in a new version as Pata Pata 2000 . She sings it in a duet with her granddaughter Zenzi Lee.

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  1. ↑ In some cases, for example on newer Makeba albums, only Masuka is given as the author, as she claimed the rights to the song. See also Graeme Ewen's Africa O-Ye. A Celebration of African Music. Guinness, London 1991, p. 175
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Bender : Sweet Mother: Modern African Music. Edition Trickster published by Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 2000, p. 202
  3. ↑ Booklet of the CD Miriam Makeba & the Skylarks The Best of
  4. ↑ Booklet of the CD Homeland