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Sathima Bea Benjamin

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South African vocalist, composer, and lyricist Sathima Bea Benjamin was born October 17, 1936 in Johannesburg and raised in Cape Town, where she began singing in church. As a youth, she first performed popular music in talent contests held during intermission at the local cinema and by the late 1950s she was singing at various nightclubs, community dances and social events. She built her repertoire watching British and American movies and listening to the radio

Top songs

  1. Africa
  2. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
  3. Music
  4. Solitude
  5. African Songbird
  6. Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
  7. Your Love Has Faded
  8. Darn That Dream
  9. I Should Care
  10. I Could Write a Book
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  1. The Man I Love
  2. Soon
  3. Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
  4. If You Were The Only Boy In The World
  5. I'm Glad There Is You
  6. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
  7. Lover Man
  8. All Too Soon
  9. I Wish I Knew
  10. Loveless Love/Careless Love
  11. Caravan
  12. "Music"
  13. I'll Be Seeing You
  14. Lush Life
  15. I'll Follow My Secret Heart
  16. Children of Soweto
  17. I Only Have Eyes for You
  18. Indian Summer
  19. You Are My Heart's Delight
  20. When Day Is Done
  21. Memories of You
  22. Winnie Mandela - Beloved Heroine
  23. Falling in Love with Love
  24. They Say Its Wonderful
  25. You Go To My Head
  26. Loveless Love / Careless Love
  27. If I Should Fall In Love Again
  28. Musical Echoes
  29. I'll See You Again
  30. I've Heard That Song Before
  31. Star Eyes
  32. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
  33. Street of Dreams
  34. Africa - orginal
  35. Together
  36. Something To Live For
  37. It Never Entered My Mind
  38. Body And Soul
  39. Someone To Watch Over Me
  40. You Don't Know What Love Is
  41. One Alone
  42. Long Ago And Far Away
  43. It Never Entered My Mind (Previously Unreleased)
  44. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
  45. Love's Old Sweet Song
  46. Windsong
  47. My Melancholy Baby
  48. Winnie Mandela : Beloved Heroine
  49. Every Time We Say Goodbye
  50. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
  51. Winnie Mandela Beloved Heroine
  52. One Day When We Were Young
  53. Swingin' the Dream: Darn That Dream
  54. Gift of Love (For Duke)
  55. Gift of Love
  56. Gift Of Love - "For Duke"
  57. Say It Isnt't So
  58. Lady Day
  59. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
  60. Africa (Feat. Dollar Brand)
  61. Dreams
  62. Wind Song
  63. Song Of Songs
  64. Sophisticated Lady
  65. In A Mellow Tone
  66. Prelude To A Kiss
  67. I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)
  68. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
  69. Mood Indigo
  70. I GOT IT BAD AND THAT AIN T GOOD
  71. In A Sentimental Mood
  72. Long Ago (And Far Away)
  73. Gift of Love "for Duke"
  74. Till There Was You
  75. Day Dream
  76. Das Land des Lachelns, Act II: You Are My Heart's Delight
  77. Africa - Christian Prommer Edit (320Kbit)
  78. Africa (orginal)
  79. Calabash
  80. Nations In Me - New Nation A 'Coming
  81. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good: I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good
  82. Zig Zag
  83. Strike up the Band: Soon
  84. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Squar
  85. Winnie Mandela (Beloved Heroine)
  86. Das Land des Lachelns, Act II: You Are My Heart's Delight (arr. S.B. Benjamin): Das Land des Lachelns, Act II: You Are My Heart's Delight
  87. Lady, be Good!: The Man I Love
  88. Say It Isn't So
  89. I M Glad There Is You
  90. Africa (Christian Prommer Edit)

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