Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018)[1] was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as "Soweto Blues" and "Bring Him Back Home". He also had a number-one US pop hit in 1968 with his version of "Grazing in the Grass".
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Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described...
Angeles, the son of a Haitian mother and South African jazz musician HughMasekela. Masekela is also the older half-brother of Survivor: Cook Islands contestant...
composed by Philemon Hou and first recorded by the South African trumpeter HughMasekela. Released in the United States as a single in 1968, it followed United...
Masekela is the eleventh studio album by South African jazz trumpeter HughMasekela released via Uni Records label in 1969. The album was recorded in...
Know My Rider" "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" (featuring HughMasekela on trumpet) "Eli's Comin'" "Stoned Soul Picnic" "Wedding Bell Blues"...
musician HughMasekela contributed the trumpet solo featured in the song, which represented the first use of brass on a Byrds' recording. Masekela and the...
four children born to Pauline and Thomas Masekela. Her father had been an artist; her older brother HughMasekela grew up to be an accomplished jazz musician...
Otis Redding, Bobby Goldsboro, Archie Bell & the Drells, Herb Alpert, HughMasekela, Jeannie C. Riley, and Marvin Gaye. Otis Redding, after his death in...
bass music as well as keyboard adaptations of Xhosa folk melodies. ...HughMasekela on trumpet; Jonas Gwangwa on trombone;Kippie Moeketsi on saxophone,...
Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, HughMasekela, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, the Mamas & the Papas, the Who and the...
Champlin, Moby Grape, the Steve Miller Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane, HughMasekela, Country Joe and the Fish, Canned Heat and the Byrds; the latter seven...
alongside saxophonists Kippie Moeketsi and Mackay Davashe, trumpeter HughMasekela, trombonist Jonas Gwangwa (who were all in the orchestra of the musical...
the host for musicians and bands including Taj Mahal, Otis Redding, HughMasekela, Alice Cooper (who all recorded live albums there between 1966 and 1969)...
birthday. Prominent South African musicians such as Miriam Makeba and HughMasekela, forced into exile, also released music critical of apartheid, and this...
Republic of the Congo). The concert, conceived by South African trumpeter HughMasekela and record producer Stewart Levine, was meant to be a major promotional...
most prominent South African singers are Miriam Makeba, Brenda Fassie, HughMasekela, Yvonne Chaka Chaka and Lucky Dube. Early records of music in southern...
apartheid; the 1977 song "Soweto Blues", written by her former husband HughMasekela, was about the Soweto uprising. After apartheid was dismantled in 1990...
Other participants included Robert Glasper, T. S. Monk, Marcus Miller, HughMasekela, Anat Cohen, Keiko Matsui, and Erik Truffaz, with highlighted Turkish...
rock band Queen and South Africans Johnny Clegg, Miriam Makeba and HughMasekela. She has performed for Queen Elizabeth II, US President Bill Clinton...
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