Hugh Masekela

Hugh Ramopolo Masekela is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. He is the father of American television host Sal Masekela.

Masekela was born in KwaGuqa 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 , Masekela took up playing the trumpet. His first trumpet was given to him by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the antiapartheid chaplain at St. Peters Secondary School.

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