Hugh Masekela
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (born 4 April 1939) is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. He is the father of American television host Sal Masekela.
Early life
Masekela was born in Kwa-Guqa Township, Witbank, South Africa. He began singing and playing piano as a child. At the age of 14, after seeing the film Young Man with a Horn (in which Kirk Douglas plays a character modelled on American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke), Masekela took up playing the trumpet. His first trumpet was given to him by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the anti-apartheid chaplain at St. Peter's Secondary School.
Huddleston asked the leader of the then Johannesburg "Native" Municipal Brass Band, Uncle Sauda, to teach Masekela the rudiments of trumpet playing. Masekela quickly mastered the instrument. Soon, some of his schoolmates also became interested in playing instruments, leading to the formation of the Huddleston Jazz Band, South Africa's first youth orchestra. By 1956, after leading other ensembles, Masekela joined Alfred Herbert's African Jazz Revue.
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ALBUMS
- Jabulani released: 2012
- We Are One released: 2011
- Hugh! The Best of Hugh Masekela released: 2010
- Notes of Life released: 2010
- Live at the Market Theatre released: 2007
- Almost Like Being In Jazz released: 2005
- Revival released: 2005
- Still Grazing released: 2004
- Grrr released: 2003
- Sixty released: 2000
- The Lasting Impressions of Ooga Booga released: 1996
- Reconstruction released: 1994
- Connoisseur Collection released: 1994
- Hugh Masakela & the Union of South Africa released: 1994
- Hope released: 1994
- Beatin' Aroun de Bush released: 1992
- Uptownship released: 1989
- Tomorrow released: 1987
- Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela released: 1978
- You Told Your Mama Not to Worry released: 1977
- Colonial Man released: 1976
- I Am Not Afraid released: 1974
- Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz released: 1973
- Home Is Where the Music Is released: 1972
- The Promise of a Future released: 1968
- Phola released:
- Home released:
- Sixty released:
- Time released:
- Grazing in the Grass: The Best of Hugh Masekela released:
We Are One
Released 2011- We Are One (Louie Vega Roots mix)
- We Are One (Louie Vega Roots instrumental)
- We Are One (Boddhi Beats)
- We Are One (radio edit)
- We Are One (dance Ritual mix)
- We Are One (dance Ritual instrumental)
- We Are One (Ritual Beats)
- We Are One (Culoe de Song remix)
- We Are One (Black Coffee original dub)
- We Are One (Black Coffee original demo mix)
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Stimela
by: Hugh MasekelaThere is a train that comes from Namibia and Malawi
there is a train that comes from Zambia and Zimbabwe,
There is a train that comes from Angola and Mozambique,
From Lesotho, from Botswana, from Zwaziland,
From all the hinterland of Southern and Central Africa.
This train carries young and old, African men
Who are conscripted to come and work on contract
In the golden mineral mines of Johannesburg
And its surrounding metropolis, sixteen hours or more a
For almost no pay.
Deep, deep, deep down in the belly of the earth
When they are digging and drilling that shiny mighty
evasive stone,
Or when they dish that mish mesh mush food
into their iron plates with the iron shank.
Or when they sit in their stinking, funky, filthy,
Flea-ridden barracks and hostels.
They think about the loved ones they may never see again
Because they might have already been forcibly removed
From where they last left them
Or wantonly murdered in the dead of night
By roving, marauding gangs of no particular origin,
We are told. they think about their lands, their herds
That were taken away from them
With a gun, bomb, teargas and the cannon.
And when they hear that Choo-Choo train
They always curse, curse the coal train,
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