Was Miriam Makeba married to Harry Belafonte?

Miriam Makeba was among the first African musicians to receive worldwide recognition. She brought African music to a Western audience and popularized the world music and Afropop genres.

Miriam Makeba was born on March 4, 1932, in Johannesburg, South Africa, and died of a heart attack during a concert in Italy on November 10, 2008, in Castel Volturno, Italy

Was Miriam Makeba married to Harry Belafonte?

Miriam Makeba wasn’t so lucky in the romance department as she has been married three times during her lifetime.

Miriam Makeba did not marry Harry Belafonte but she first married James Kubay in 1949. He was a policeman in training, with whom she had her only child, Bongi Makeba, in 1950. Makeba was then diagnosed with breast cancer, and her husband, who was said to have abused her, left her shortly afterward, after a two-year marriage. A few years after surviving breast cancer she was diagnosed and overcame cervical cancer via a hysterectomy.