Miriam Makeba recorded the original Pata Pata in Johannesburg in 1956 before she was exiled from South Africa. She re-recorded it in New York in 1967 for Reprise Records, where Harry Belafonte mentored her, and it reached the US Top 20 — the first South African song to do so. The apartheid government banned her music. She lived in exile for thirty-one years.
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