| LC control no. | nr 92033517 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Benjamin, Sathima Bea |
| Variant(s) | Benjamin, Beatrice Bertha Benjamin, Beatty Ibrahim, Sathima |
| Located | New York, N.Y. |
| Birth date | 19361017 |
| Death date | 20130820 |
| Place of birth | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Place of death | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Field of activity | Jazz |
| Profession or occupation | Jazz singer Anti-apartheid activist |
| Found in | Her Memories and dreams [SR] 1983?: label (Sathima Bea Benjamin) container (jazz singer) New York times (online), viewed Aug. 30, 2013 (in obituary published Aug. 29: Sathima Bea Benjamin; b. Beatrice Bertha Benjamin, Oct. 17, 1936, Johannesburg; raised in a suburb of Cape Town; later performed under the name Beatty Benjamin; m. Adolph Brand, 1965; when she and her husband converted to Islam three years later, he changed his name to Abdullah Ibrahim, and she adopted the name Sathima Ibrahim, using Sathima Bea Benjamin professionally; settled in New York, 1977; divorced and moved back to Cape Town, 2011; d. Aug. 20, Cape Town, aged 76; as an internationally recognized jazz singer became both an ambassador for her South African homeland and a beacon of principled objection to apartheid) |
| Associated language | eng |
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