Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Ramopolo Masekelais a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. He is the father of American television host Sal Masekela...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth4 April 1939
african brought found life
I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.
african arts crafts create encourage explore group heritage history interested native number people performance spaces
I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history.
world culture wealth
I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.
world-love culture periods
It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.
long world born
Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.
struggle community march
I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.
two people different
I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.
live-in-the-moment moments persons
I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.
world geography
All my experiences removed geography from my world.
uprising way culture
I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.
years trying music-education
When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.