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Home Is Where the Music Is is a 1972 jazz and Afrobeat double LP by Hugh Masekela issued by the joint American label Chisa/Blue Thumb Records. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Home is a 1982 studio album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela. [2] [3] [4] The album was re-released as a CD in 1996 via Columbia Records with a slightly rearranged track listing. Track listing. Personnel. Band. Hugh Masekela – flugelhorn, vocals, producer. Charles "Poogie" Bell – drums. Russell Blake – electric bass.
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Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was born in the township of KwaGuqa in Witbank (now called Emalahleni), South Africa, to Thomas Selena Masekela, who was a health inspector and sculptor and his wife, Pauline Bowers Masekela, a social worker. His younger sister Barbara Masekela is a poet, educator and ANC activist. As a child, he began singing and playing pia...
At the end of 1959, Dollar Brand (later known as Abdullah Ibrahim), Kippie Moeketsi, Makhaya Ntshoko, Jonas Gwangwa, Johnny Gertze and Hugh formed the Jazz Epistles, the first African jazz group to record an LP. They performed to record-breaking audiences in Johannesburg and Cape Townthrough late 1959 to early 1960. Following the 21 March 1960 Shar...
Masekela was involved in several social initiatives, and served as a director on the board of the Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organization that provides a daily meal to students of township schools in Soweto.
From 1964 to 1966 Masekela was married to singer and activist Miriam Makeba. He had subsequent marriages to Chris Calloway (daughter of Cab Calloway), Jabu Mbatha, and Elinam Cofie. During the last few years of his life, he lived with the dancer Nomsa Manaka. He was the father of American television host Selema Masekela. Poet, educator, and activis...
Masekela was honoured with a Google Doodle on 4 April 2019, which would have been his 80th birthday. The Doodle depicts Masekela, dressed in colourful shirt, playing a flugelhornin front of a banner.
With D. Michael Cheers (2004). Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela, Crown, ISBN 978-0-609-60957-6
"Hugh Masekela archive interview" - a video interview with Robin Denselow of The Guardian, 2011"A conversation with musician Hugh Masekela" – a video interview on Charlie Rose, 2009Explore music from Hugh Masekela. Shop for vinyl, CDs, and more from Hugh Masekela on Discogs.
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Home. Hugh Masekela. ⇽ Back to List of Artists. Hugh Masekela (1939-2018) was a famed South African trumpeter and bandleader. Masekela was a prominent figure in 1960s jazz. A student of...
Home Is Where the Music Is by Hugh Masekela released in 1972. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
