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