The Resume

(March 4, 1932-November 10, 2008)
Famous songs include 'The Click Song' and 'Pata Pata'
Nicknamed 'The Empress of African Song' and 'Mama Africa'

Why she might be annoying:

She had her first child before age 20.
In 1959, she was exiled from South Africa after starring in an anti-apartheid movie.
She married 5 times.
One husband was Black Panther Stokeley Carmichael.
Her marriage to Carmichael led to the cancellation of her American record contract and her fleeing to Guinea in the 1970s.

Why she might not be annoying:

She helped bring attention to South Africa's apartheid policy.
Harry Belafonte helped her to emigrate to the United States.
She and Belafonte won the 1966 Grammy for 'Best Folk Recording.'
The Brazilian soccer team adopted her version of the hit 'Mais Que Nada' as their song for the 1966 World Cup and use it as their theme to this day.
She survived a plane crash and bout with breast cancer.
In 1990, she was persuaded by Nelson Mandela to return to South Africa after a 31 year absence.

Credit: Black Chic

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BC/Black Chic's Profiles [Series 02]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [March] (Ranked: 3041932)
• Double M Initials
• Ed Sullivan Show Guests
• Google Modified Its Logo For My Birthday (Google Doodles)
• Grammy for Best Folk Album (Ranked: 1966)
• I am South African
• I Covered 'House of the Rising Sun'
• I Died in 2008 (Ranked: 76)
• I Have Breast Cancer
• I Married at Least Five Times [I Do! I Do! I Do! I Do! I Do!]
• I Recorded 'Lion Sleeps Tonight'
• I Survived an Air Crash
• Look at Me, It's This Big
• Look at My Headband
• Miss Universe Judges (Ranked: 1992)
• My Music was Lost in the 2008 Universal Studios Fire
• Profiles 16501-16750 (Ranked: 16693)
• Rolling Stone’s 200 Greatest Singers of All Time [1-100] (Ranked: 53)
• Time’s 100 Women of the Year [1920-2020] (Ranked: 1967)
• Young Moms [I Had a Child Before Turning 21]

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 72 Votes: 43.06% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 51 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 81.25% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 23 Votes: 56.52% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 33 Votes: 60.61% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 51 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 65 Votes: 58.46% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 134 Votes: 53.73% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 39 Votes: 66.67% Annoying