Rest in Power to the Father of South African Jazz - bandleader, trumpeter, composer, political activist, Hugh Masekela was a colossus of international music even gaining a US Number 1 pop hit in 1968 with his version of 'Grazing In The Grass'.

"Grazing In The Grass" - Hugh Masekela (1968) The nicest cowbells ever! Album: "The Promise of a Future" Masekela was born in Kwa-Guqa Township, Witbank, South Africa. Following the 21 March 1960 Sharpeville Massacre-where 69 peacefully protesting Africans were shot dead in Sharpeville, and the South African government banned gatherings of ten or more people-and the increased brutality of the Apartheid state, Masekela left the country.

He wrote the anti-apartheid anthems 'Soweto Blues' and 'Bring Him Back Home', performed at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, founded the Botswana International School of Music (BISM) in 1985 and gave the world some of the freshest and most joyful music ever heard.

Languta (0:00) Kaa Ye Oya (4:50) Adade (9:27) Yei Baa Gbe Wolo (13:37) Patience (19:12) When (23:01) Nye Tamo Ame (30:30) Rekpete (35:50)

Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018). Never forgotten xxx