The search engine today honours the late great South African jazz icon on what would have been his 80th birthday.
, along with the rest of the world, is celebrating the birth of music legend Hugh Masekela, who would have turned 80 years old today. Born on April 4 1939, in Kwa-Guqa township in Witbank, Masekela was best known as an international jazz trumpeter, composer, and singer whose music was instrumental in spreading an anti-apartheid message around the world.
Masekela started learning to play the trumpet when he was 14, quickly mastered it and joined the Huddleston Jazz Band, South Africa’s first youth orchestra. In the midst of the oppression faced by black South Africans in the 1950s and 1960s, Hugh Masekela’s music took on the role of reflection on and protest against the situation.Following the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, the talented young man left South Africa to study music in London.
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