What Stilly said.

It's so sad to lose two such powerful and expressive voices and souls as Miriam Makeba and Odetta so close together. Kind of a one-two punch.   But I'm glad both of these fighters for human rights and equality lived to see history turn the page that's just been turned, with the US 2008 election results.   

The more I think about it, the more outrageous it seems that neither of these two amazing singers made Rolling Stone's recent list of the "One Hundred Greatest Singers Of All Time.

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