Skylarks | en

1. Skylarks is a post-rock/drone act from Iowa led by Preston Clopton. He independently released a demo available for download in February 2013 entitled Mystic Man. 2. The Skylarks were a South African jazz band .

Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg on 4 March 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma (traditional healer-herbalist). Her father, who died when she was six years old, was a Xhosa. When she was eighteen days old, her mother was arrested for selling umqombothi, an African homemade beer brewed from malt and cornmeal. Her mother was sentenced to a six-month prison term, so Miriam spent her first six months of life in jail. As a child, she sang in the choir of the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, a primary school that she attended for eight years. In 1950...