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Hugh Masekela

  • Skill Category: Music/Dance Legend
  • Country: South Africa
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Biography

Hugh Ramapolo Masekela 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”

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January 23 marked exactly four years since African jazz icon Hugh Masekela, who is described as a world-renowned flugelhornist, trumpeter, composer, and defiant political voice who remained deeply connected with his South African roots, passed away.

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