Miriam Makeba has every right to sing the blues, not the least of which being Soweto Blues, penned by her former husband Hugh Masekela. She's lived a hard life that includes the death of her father when she was six years old and repeated bumps against politics in various forms that resulted in a stunted career that should have been stellar had it been based solely on her talents.She's, perhaps, most famous for a song the actual title of which is unpronounceable by western tongues (Qongqothwane is one transliteration) and has become known as The Click Song. But, she's a soulful singer who has blended forms of blues, jazz, latin and African Folk music in various ways throughout her career.The video is from Paul Simon's Graceland (The African Concert). The concert was recorded in 1991, when the apartheid regime in South Africa was in its dying throes, and that political backdrop informs the song as well as the performance. It's quite likely the reason Makeba's rendition of an ostensibly blues song sounds so triumphant.