2015 song by Jain
"Makeba" is a song by French singer-songwriter Jain released on 6 November 2015 from her debut studio album Zanaka (2015). The song was written by Jain herself, and produced by her long-time collaborator Maxim Nucci. The refrain of the song used a sample from the 1978 song "Me and the Gang" by the American percussionist, songwriter, arranger, and record producer Hamilton Bohannon.[3] The song peaked at number seven on the French Singles Chart. The song references Miriam Makeba, also known as "Mama Africa", a South African singer and anti-Apartheid civil rights activist.
Australian reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! uses the song as an intro. Since 2019, it is also used as the intro theme to Amazon Prime Video's coverage of the Premier League in the United Kingdom and Ligue 1 in France.
In June 2023, "Makeba" received a resurgence in popularity due to the virality it achieved on TikTok.[4] The song has been used in ads for Marshalls and Levi's.[5]
Music video
The three-minute and forty-three-second music video for the song "Makeba" was released in November 30, 2016 on Jain's official YouTube channel. It opens with the last frame of Jain's song "Come" from the same album Zanaka, as she crumples the frame from the camera as if it was a paper and walks to the right of the screen. As Jain turns knobs on the sound deck, street poles rise up or fall down, and buildings rise and lower.
The music video, shot in South Africa, was nominated for a Grammy Award.[6]