Moholo's death, the last surviving member of The Blue Notes, saddened many. Online users shared heartfelt farewell messages ...

given to the young Hugh by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the anti-apartheid chaplain at St. Peters Secondary School. Masekela had been greatly moved by the music he heard on the 78 RPM gramophone ...

just as her predecessors — activist performers like Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela — did during apartheid. “I don’t take my job lightly,” she told the politicians that night.

‘I’m in jail’: Morley Nkosi, who has just released his autobiography The Way Home, and jazz legend Hugh Masekela (above) both went into exile during the apartheid era. Photo: Jack Vartoogian ...

as well as for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as Soweto Blues and Bring Him Back Home. 1. 11 June 2006: Trumpet player Hugh Masekela and his band performing at the Market Threatre during ...

And Hugh Masekela brings that together. H MASEKELA: (Vocalizing). SELEMA MASEKELA: When my dad left South Africa is during the height of apartheid - and he's literally escaping apartheid.

Masekela, who died in 2018, was a symbol of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. He performed around the world, including at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Originally broadcast in 1988.

Acting legend and playwright John Kani has revealed that SA jazz music has been his saving grace during the pandemic and that the late Hugh ... about the legacy of apartheid.

Along with other leading South African musicians like Masekela, Abdullah Ibrahim and Miriam Makeba, Gwangwa went into exile rather than bow to apartheid censorship. Referns/Getty Images Hugh ...

Getty Images for OGR Share “Rejoice,” a long-dormant collaboration between legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen and the late South African horn player Hugh Masekela, is a swirling ...