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23 de ene. de 2018 · Masekela was given his first trumpet at the age of 14. Legendary jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela, a leading figure in the struggle to end apartheid and "the father of South African jazz", has died ...
24 de ene. de 2018 · Hugh Masekela, "Afro Beat Blues" (1975) Another Masekela track under the spell of Fela Kuti, but one that did not see the light of day until a 2006 compilation that opened the Chisa records vault.
4 de abr. de 2024 · A year later, Hugh released Masekela, the most politically themed work he’d done up to that point. “It was the time of civil rights, Vietnam, black power,” he wrote in Still Grazing. “I ...
He founded the Hugh Masekela Heritage Foundation in 2015 to continue this work for generations to come. “My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are,” Masekela confided – It was this commitment to his home continent that propelled him forward since he first began playing the trumpet.
23 de ene. de 2018 · Hugh Masekela, the legendary South African jazz musician who scored an unlikely No. 1 hit on the Billboard chart with his song "Grazing in the Grass" and who collaborated with artists ranging from ...
Hugh Masekela. South African flugelhorn, trumpet and cornet player (4 April 1939 - 23 January 2018). In 1961, as part of the anti-apartheid campaign, he was exiled to the United States where he was befriended by Harry Belafonte. Primarily, he played in jazz ensembles, with guest appearances on albums by The Byrds, and Paul Simon.
