After the rousing reception of “The Meeting Place (Amapiano Version)” alongside Soca legend, Machel Montano, the late legendary South African trumpeter, composer and vocalist, Hugh Masekela, and the ...

Update: Hugh Masekala passed away on January 23, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa at the age of 78. It was an honor to have had Hugh and his band visit WFUV for this interview and performance. Hugh ...

Legendary South African musician Hugh Masekela died on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer, the South African government announced on its official Twitter page. He was 78. Known as the father of ...

Lest we forget the total blast that was the late Hugh Masekela, caught in the act of breaking big in the US in 1968. Like Fela Kuti, Masekela kept the good times rolling and the message loud and clear ...

The great South African trumpeter and activist Hugh Masekela died today after a long fight with prostate cancer. He was 78. His music came to symbolize the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Trumpeter and singer Hugh Masekela, known as the "father of South African jazz" who used his music in the fight against apartheid, has died from prostate cancer, his family ...

But it wasn’t just love of music that made the future trumpet player, flugelhornist and singer want to escape reality — it was the infamous South African apartheid system of government that was first ...

Hugh Masekela, a South African trumpeter, singer and activist whose music became symbolic of the country’s anti-apartheid movement, even as he spent three decades in exile, died on Tuesday in ...

He was born in 1939 in South Africa at a time when the rights of the black population were nonexistent. In the absence of a good fairy leaning over his cradle in a township, the young adolescent ...