:Hugh Masekela

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.{{cite news|url=https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/hugh-masekela-dies.html|title=Hugh Masekela, Trumpeter and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies at 78|newspaper=The New York Times|date=23 January 2018|author=Russonello, Giovanni}} His younger sister Barbara Masekela is a poet, educator and ANC activist. As a child, he began singing and playing piano and was largely raised by his grandmother, who ran an illegal bar for miners. At the age of 14, after seeing the 1950 film Young Man with a Horn (in which Kirk Douglas plays a character modelled on American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke), Masekela took up playing the trumpet. His first trumpet was bought for him from a local music store by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00938bc|title=Desert Islands Discs: Hugh Masekela|first=Sue|last=Lawley|date=16 July 2004|access-date=7 July 2018|website=BBC}} the anti-apartheid chaplain at St. Peter's Secondary School now known as St. Martin's School (Rosettenville).Fairweather, Digby, The Rough Guide to Jazz, St. Martin's Press (2004), p. 13 – {{ISBN|0-312-27870-5}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-42787109|title=Hugh Masekela: South Africa's 'Father of Jazz'|first=Flora|last=Drury|date=23 January 2018|access-date=23 January 2018|website=BBC}}

Huddleston asked the leader of the then Johannesburg "Native" Municipal Brass Band, Uncle Sauda, to teach Masekela the rudiments of trumpet playing.{{cite web|url=https://www.enca.com/life/entertainment/rip-hugh-masekelas-train-comes-to-a-halt|title='Father of South African jazz' Hugh Masekela dies|website=Enca.com|date=23 January 2018|access-date=23 January 2018|archive-date=9 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709094424/https://www.enca.com/life/entertainment/rip-hugh-masekelas-train-comes-to-a-halt|url-status=dead}} Masekela quickly mastered the instrument. Soon, some of his schoolmates also became interested in playing instruments, leading to the formation of the Huddleston Jazz Band, South Africa's first youth orchestra. When Louis Armstrong heard of this band from his friend Huddleston he sent one of his own trumpets as a gift for Hugh. By 1956, after leading other ensembles, Masekela joined Alfred Herbert's African Jazz Revue.{{cite book|last=Mojapelo|first=Max |title=Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-KW9f02oNMC&pg=PA268|year=2008|publisher=African Minds|isbn=978-1-920299-28-6|pages=268–}}

From 1954, Masekela played music that closely reflected his life experience. The agony, conflict, and exploitation faced by South Africa during the 1950s and 1960s inspired and influenced him to make music and also spread political change. He was an artist who in his music vividly portrayed the struggles and sorrows, as well as the joys and passions of his country. His music protested about apartheid, slavery, government; the hardships individuals were living. Masekela reached a large population that also felt oppressed due to the country's situation.{{cite book|last=Stanley Niaah|first=Sonjah|author-link=Sonjah Stanley Niaah|editor-first1=Katherine |editor-last1=McKittrick |editor-first2=Clyde Adrian |editor-last2=Woods|title=Black Geographies and the Politics of Place|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLJ2AAAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=South End Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-89608-773-6|pages=193–217|chapter=Mapping of Black Atlantic Performance Geographies: From Slave Ship to Ghetto}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.ritmoartists.com/Hugh/Masekela.htm |title=Hugh Masekela |access-date=29 February 2008 |archive-date=14 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214080650/http://www.ritmoartists.com/Hugh/Masekela.htm |url-status=dead }}

Following a Manhattan Brothers tour of South Africa in 1958, Masekela joined the orchestra of the musical King Kong, written by Todd Matshikiza.{{cite web|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/hugh-masekela|title=Hugh Masekela|date=17 February 2011|website=Sahistory.org.za|access-date=23 January 2018}} King Kong was South Africa's first blockbuster theatrical success, touring the country for a sold-out year with Miriam Makeba and the Manhattan Brothers' Nathan Mdledle in the lead. The musical later went to London's West End for two years.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RG_LAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT372|title=Motown Encyclopedia|first=Graham|last=Betts|date=2014|publisher=AC Publishing|isbn=9781311441546}}

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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,{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-complete-recordings-feat-hugh-masekela-dollar-brand/872610789|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124070648/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-complete-recordings-feat-hugh-masekela-dollar-brand/872610789|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 January 2018|title=The Complete Recordings (feat. Hugh Masekela & Dollar Brand) by The Jazz Epistles on Apple Music|date=1 January 2014|website=iTunes|access-date=23 January 2018}} the first African jazz group to record an LP. They performed to record-breaking audiences in Johannesburg and Cape Town through late 1959 to early 1960.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/jazz-epistles/?performanceNumber=10071|title=Jazz Epistles w/ Abdullah Ibrahim, Wadada Leo Smith & Ekaya|website=Sfjazz.org|access-date=23 January 2018}}

Following the 21 March 1960 Sharpeville massacre—where 69 protestors 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 was helped by Trevor Huddleston and international friends such as Yehudi Menuhin and John Dankworth, who got him admitted into London's Guildhall School of Music in 1960.{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/hugh-masekela-obituary-qnhgmqt33|title=Hugh Masekela|date=23 January 2018|access-date=23 January 2018|website=The Times}} During that period, Masekela visited the United States, where he was befriended by Harry Belafonte.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/hugh-masekela-dead-death-music-jazz-latest-news-life-career-apartheid-south-africa-a8173406.html|title=South African jazz legend and apartheid activist Hugh Masekela dies|first=Maya|last= Oppenheim|date=23 January 2018|website=The Independent|access-date=23 January 2018}} After securing a scholarship back in London, Masekela moved to the United States to attend the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where he studied classical trumpet from 1960 to 1964.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/23/hugh-masekela-obituary|title=Hugh Masekela obituary: South African jazz pioneer who fought the evil of apartheid|first=Robin|last=Denselow|date=23 January 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=23 January 2018}} In 1964, Miriam Makeba and Masekela were married, divorcing two years later.

He had hits in the US with the pop jazz tunes "Up, Up and Away" (1967) and the number-one smash "Grazing in the Grass" (1968), which sold four million copies.Yanow, Scott. Trumpet Kings: The Players Who Shaped the Sound of Jazz Trumpet, Backbeat Books (2001), p. 248. {{ISBN|0-87930-608-4}} He also appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and was subsequently featured in the film Monterey Pop by D. A. Pennebaker and mentioned in the song Monterey by Eric Burdon & the Animals. In 1974, Masekela and friend Stewart Levine organised the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa set around the Rumble in the Jungle boxing match.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/532636128/before-the-rumble-in-the-jungle-music-rang-out-at-zaire-74|title=Before The Rumble In The Jungle, Music Rang Out At Zaire 74|first=Sam|last=Gringlas|author2=Ari Shapiro|website=NPR|date=14 June 2017|access-date=23 January 2018}}

He played primarily in jazz ensembles, with guest appearances on recordings by the Byrds ("So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" and "Lady Friend") (the latter being denied by David Crosby) and Paul Simon ("Further to Fly"). In 1984, Masekela released the album Techno Bush; from that album, a single entitled "Don't Go Lose It Baby" peaked at number two for two weeks on the dance charts.{{cite book |title= Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=168}} In 1987, he had a hit single with "Bring Him Back Home". The song became enormously popular, and turned into an unofficial anthem of the anti-apartheid movement and an anthem for the movement to free Nelson Mandela.{{cite web|last1=Haglund|first1=David|title=It Is Music and Dancing That Makes Me at Peace With the World|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/12/05/nelson_mandela_songs_free_mandela_tributes_from_the_specials_johnny_clegg.html|website=Slate.com|date=5 December 2013|access-date=7 March 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Greenwald|first1=Matthew|title=Hugh Masekela Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela)|url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/bring-him-back-home-nelson-mandela-mt0010490700|website=AllMusic|access-date=7 March 2015}}

A renewed interest in his African roots led Masekela to collaborate with West and Central African musicians, and finally to reconnect with Southern African players when he set up with the help of Jive Records a mobile studio in Botswana, just over the South African border, from 1980 to 1984. Here he re-absorbed and re-used mbaqanga strains, a style he continued to use following his return to South Africa in the early 1990s.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/hugh-masekela-south-african-trumpeter-and-a-leading-voice-in-the-anti-apartheid-movement-dies-at-78/2018/01/23/3181306a-0032-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html|title=Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter and a leading voice in the anti-apartheid movement, dies at 78|first=Harrison|last=Smith|date=23 January 2018|access-date=23 January 2018|website=W.washingtonpost.com}}

In 1985 Masekela founded the Botswana International School of Music (BISM), which held its first workshop in Gaborone in that year.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfcv.org/article/after-apartheid-his-music-brings-us-together|title=After Apartheid, His Music Brings Us Together|website=Sfcv.org|first=Jeff|last=Kaliss |date= 8 March 2011| access-date=23 January 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/biography-hugh-masekela-fardin-rahman|title=Biography of Hugh Masekela |first=Fardin |last=Rahman|date=17 January 2017|website=Sahistory.org.za|access-date=23 January 2018}} The event, still in existence, continues as the annual Botswana Music Camp, giving local musicians of all ages and from all backgrounds the opportunity to play and perform together. Masekela taught the jazz course at the first workshop, and performed at the final concert.{{cite web|url=http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=7&aid=21&dir=2009/September/Friday4/|title=Mmegi Online :: Botswana Music Camp slated for December|first=Gasebalwe|last=Seretse|website=Mmegi.bw|date=4 September 2009|access-date=23 January 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://thoughtsfrombotswana.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/music-camp-day-2.html|title=Music Camp Day 2|website=thoughtsfrombotswana.blogspot.co.uk|date=10 December 2008| access-date=23 January 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/22919/03back.pdf?sequence=4 |title=Sources |publisher=University of Pretoria |access-date=23 January 2018}}

Also in the 1980s, Masekela toured with Paul Simon in support of Simon's album Graceland, which featured other South African artists such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba, Ray Phiri, and other elements of the band Kalahari, which was co-founded by guitarist Banjo Mosele and which backed Masekela in the 1980s.{{cite book

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| id= CN 5585}} As well as recording with Kalahari,{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Hugh-Masekela-With-Kalahari-Tomorrow/release/2964801|title=Hugh Masekela With Kalahari – Tomorrow |website=Discogs.com|year=1987 |access-date=23 January 2018}} he also collaborated in the musical development for the Broadway play Sarafina!, which premiered in 1988.{{cite web|url=https://www.last.fm/music/Hugh+Masekela/+wiki|title=Hugh Masekela|publisher=last.fm |access-date=23 January 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/shows/backstage.php?showid=2943|title=Sarafina! Production History|website=Broadway World|access-date=20 April 2021}}

In 2003, he was featured in the documentary film Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony. In 2004, he released his autobiography, Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela, co-authored with journalist D. Michael Cheers,Masekela, Hugh. Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela, Crown Publishers (2004), {{ISBN|0-609-60957-2}}. which detailed Masekela's struggles against apartheid in his homeland, as well as his personal struggles with alcoholism from the late 1970s to the 1990s. In this period, he migrated, in his personal recording career, to mbaqanga, jazz/funk, and the blending of South African sounds, through two albums he recorded with Herb Alpert, and solo recordings, Techno-Bush (recorded in his studio in Botswana), Tomorrow (featuring the anthem "Bring Him Back Home"), Uptownship (a lush-sounding ode to American R&B), Beatin' Aroun de Bush, Sixty, Time, and Revival. His song "Soweto Blues", sung by his former wife, Miriam Makeba, is a blues/jazz piece that mourns the carnage of the Soweto riots in 1976.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/miriam-makeba-singer-banned-from-her-native-south-africa-for-fighting-apartheid-1009604.html|title=Miriam Makeba: Singer banned from her native South Africa for fighting|date=11 November 2008|first=Jon|last=Lusk|website=The Independent|access-date=23 January 2018}} He also provided interpretations of songs composed by Jorge Ben, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Caiphus Semenya, Jonas Gwangwa, Dorothy Masuka, and Fela Kuti.

In 2006 Masekela was described by Michael A. Gomez, professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University as "the father of African jazz."{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y694Kny7ZHsC&pg=PA18|title=Diasporic Africa: A Reader|last=Gomez|first=Michael A.|page= 18|date=2006|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=9780814731659}}{{cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/books/9780814731666/|title=Diasporic Africa - A Reader |publisher= NYU Press|website=Nyupress.org|access-date=23 January 2018}}

In 2009, Masekela released the album Phola (meaning "to get well, to heal"), his second recording for 4 Quarters Entertainment/Times Square Records. It includes some songs he wrote in the 1980s but never completed, as well as a reinterpretation of "The Joke of Life (Brinca de Vivre)", which he recorded in the mid-1980s. From October 2007, he was a board member of the Woyome Foundation for Africa.[http://www.wofound.org/board.htm Board members] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302220943/http://www.wofound.org/board.htm |date=2 March 2014 }}, Woyome Foundation for Africa.[http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/trumpet-player-and-so-much-more-hugh-masekela "Trumpet player and so much more, Hugh Masekela"], African American Registry.

In 2010, Masekela was featured, with his son Selema Masekela, in a series of videos on ESPN. The series, called Umlando – Through My Father's Eyes, was aired in 10 parts during ESPN's coverage of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The series focused on Hugh's and Selema's travels through South Africa. Hugh brought his son to the places he grew up. It was Selema's first trip to his father's homeland.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2010/04/umlando-%E2%80%93-through-my-father%E2%80%99s-eyes-espn-to-present-10-part-series-during-2010-fifa-world-cup-hugh-and-sal-masekela-explore-south-africa/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621005834/http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2010/04/umlando-%E2%80%93-through-my-father%E2%80%99s-eyes-espn-to-present-10-part-series-during-2010-fifa-world-cup-hugh-and-sal-masekela-explore-south-africa/|url-status=dead|title=ESPN – Umlando – Through My Father's Eyes|archive-date=21 June 2010|access-date=15 September 2021}}

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On 3 December 2013, Masekela guested with the Dave Matthews Band in Johannesburg, South Africa. He joined Rashawn Ross on trumpet for "Proudest Monkey" and "Grazing in the Grass".{{Cite web|url=http://dmbalmanac.com/TourShowSet.aspx?id=453057133&tid=121&where=2013/|title=DMBAlmanac.com²|website=Dmbalmanac.com|access-date=15 September 2021}}

In 2016, at Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim performed together for the first time in 60 years, reuniting the Jazz Epistles in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the historic 16 June 1976 youth demonstrations.Podbrey, Gwen, [http://www.destinyman.com/2016/05/04/hugh-masekela-abdullah-ibrahim-perform-one-stage/ "Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim to perform on one stage"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821214432/http://www.destinyman.com/2016/05/04/hugh-masekela-abdullah-ibrahim-perform-one-stage/ |date=21 August 2017 }}, Destinyman.com, 4 May 2016.[http://abdullahibrahim.co.za/the-jazz-epistles-tribute-announcedabdullah-ibrahim-ekaya-and-hugh-masekela-a-tribute-to-jazz-epistles/ "Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya and Hugh Masekela: A Tribute to Jazz Epistles"], News, Abdullah Ibrahim website, 13 May 2016.[http://blackmajor.co.za/news/hugh-masekela-abdullah-ibrahim-present-a-tribute-to-the-jazz-epistles-in-jhb/ "Hugh Masekela & Abdullah Ibrahim perform a tribute to the Jazz Epistles in JHB"], Black Major, 15 June 2016.

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.{{cite journal|url=http://www.afropolitan.co.za/articles/hugh-masekela-playing-work-227.html|title=Hugh Masekela - Playing @ Work|date=15 April 2013|website=Afropolitan.co.za|access-date=23 January 2018|archive-date=29 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004113/http://www.afropolitan.co.za/articles/hugh-masekela-playing-work-227.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.thelunchboxfund.org/annualreports/lbf-2013.pdf |title=2013 Annual Report |website=Thelunchboxfund.org |page=15 |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-date=24 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071615/http://www.thelunchboxfund.org/annualreports/lbf-2013.pdf |url-status=dead }}

From 1964 to 1966 Masekela was married to singer and activist Miriam Makeba.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/nov/11/miriam-makeba-obituary|title=Obituary: Miriam Makeba|first=Graeme|last=Ewens|date=11 November 2008|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=23 January 2018}} 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.{{cite news | title=Bra Hugh's last love, Nomsa Manaka : 'He was the most amazing person' | date=29 January 2018 | first=Kyle |last=Zeeman | work=Times Live | url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/tshisa-live/tshisa-live/2018-01-29-bra-hughs-last-love-nomsa-manaka-he-was-the-most-amazing-person/ |access-date=10 October 2020}} He was the father of American television host Selema Masekela. Poet, educator, and activist Barbara Masekela is his younger sister.[https://www.news24.com/Archives/City-Press/Hugh-Masekela-Im-still-a-work-in-progress-20150429 "Hugh Masekela: I’m still a work in progress"], News24.com, 10 September 2014.

Masekela died in Johannesburg on the early morning of 23 January 2018 from prostate cancer, aged 78.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/23/hugh-masekela-south-african-jazz-trumpeter-dies-aged-78|title=Hugh Masekela, South African jazz trumpeter, dies aged 78|newspaper=The Guardian|date=23 January 2018|author=Burke, Jason}}{{cite web|url=http://hughmasekela.co.za/news/family-statement|title=Family Statement – HUGH MASEKELA|website=hughmasekela.co.za|date=23 January 2018 |access-date=24 January 2018}}

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 flugelhorn in front of a banner.{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/ |website=Google.com|title=Masekela Google Doodle |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404095359/https://www.google.com/ |access-date=25 April 2023|archive-date=4 April 2019 }}

Masekela was nominated for a Grammy Award three times, including a nomination for Best World Music Album for his 2012 album Jabulani, one for Best Musical Cast Show Album for Sarafina! The Music Of Liberation (1989) and one for Best Contemporary Pop Performance for the song "Grazing in the Grass" (1968).{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/hugh-masekela|title=Hugh Masekela|date=14 May 2017|publisher=Grammy.com|access-date=23 January 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-search,0,7169155.htmlstory?searchtype=all&query=Hugh+Masekela&x=17&y=8|title=Envelope |website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=23 January 2018}}

• 1998: Nominated for Broadway's Tony Award for Best Score (Musical), with music and lyrics collaborator Mbongeni Ngema, for Sarafina![http://imdb.com/name/nm0556249/bio Hugh Masekela biography], IMDb.
• 2002: BBC Radio Jazz Awards: International Award of the Year{{Cite web|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213045352/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=1655|url-status=dead|title=Winners of the BBC Radio Jazz Awards 2002|date=15 August 2002|archive-date=13 February 2008|website=All About Jazz}}
• 2003: Order for Meritorious Service in silver{{cite web|url=https://archive.gazettes.africa/archive/za/2003/za-government-gazette-dated-2003-02-28-no-24977.pdf|title=Government Notices {{!}} Award of the Order for Meritorious Service |website=Government Gazette|volume=452|location= Pretoria|date=28 February 2003|number=24977|access-date=22 July 2024}}
• 2005: Channel O Music Video Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award{{Cite web|url=http://www.mio.co.za/article.php?cat=industry_events&id=432|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213093839/http://www.mio.co.za/article.php?cat=industry_events&id=432|first=Taryn-Lee|last=Biggar|date=4 April 2005|url-status=dead|title=2005 Channel O Music Video Awards|archive-date=13 February 2008|access-date=15 September 2021}}
• 2007: Ghana Music Awards:African Music Legend award{{cite web|url=http://www.africahit.com/news/index.php?mod=article&cat=Ghana&article=2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213091046/http://www.africahit.com/news/index.php?mod=article&cat=Ghana&article=2020|archive-date=13 February 2008|title=Africahit - Aftermath Of The Ghana Music Awards 2007|date=13 February 2008|access-date=5 March 2019}}
• 2010: Order of Ikhamanga in gold: South African National Orders Ceremony, 27 April 2010
• 2014: University of York: Honorary Doctorate in Music 2014[http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2014/events/honorary-degrees-july "University of York honours 16 for their contribution to society"], University of York, 11 July 2014.
• 2015: Rhodes University: Doctor of Music (honoris causa)[https://hughmasekela.co.za/news/rhodes-gives-hugh-masekela-an-honorary-doctorate/ "Rhodes gives Hugh Masekela an honorary doctorate"], Times Live, 1 April 2015 (via Hugh Masekela Official Site).
• 2016: MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs): Legend Award{{cite web|url=https://hughmasekela.co.za/news/best-of-mtvmama-2016/|title=Best Of MTVMAMA 2016 – Hugh Masekela|website=Hughmasekela.co.za|date=23 October 2016 |access-date=23 January 2018}}

• With D. Michael Cheers (2004). Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela, Crown, {{ISBN|978-0-609-60957-6}}

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• [http://www.hughmasekela.co.za Official website]
• [http://www.nycradiolive.org/?p=536 "Hugh Masekela – Legend of South African Music"] a backstage interview with NYC Radio LIVE!, 2013
• [https://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2010/nov/06/jazz-hugh-maskala "Hugh Masekela archive interview"] - a video interview with Robin Denselow of The Guardian, 2011
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090816000814/http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10554 "A conversation with musician Hugh Masekela"] – a video interview on Charlie Rose, 2009
• [https://www.news24.com/Books/book-extract-still-grazing-masekela-on-coming-home-from-exile-20180123 "Still Grazing - Hugh Masekela on coming home from exile"] by Hugh Masekela and D. Michael Cheers, book extract at News24
• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05zz9m5/hardtalk-hugh-masekela-musician-and-activist "Hugh Masekela - Musician and Activist"] – interview with Zeinab Badawi for HardTalk at BBC News, 2015

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Category:Heads Up International artists

Category:Jive Records artists

Category:Mercury Records artists

Category:MGM Records artists

Category:Uni Records artists

Category:Verve Records artists

Category:South African anti-apartheid activists

Category:South African political music artists

Category:South African autobiographers

Category:South African jazz composers

Category:People from Witbank

Category:Recipients of the Order of Ikhamanga

Category:Deaths from prostate cancer

Category:Deaths from cancer in South Africa

Category:The Jazz Epistles members

Category:Burials at Westpark Cemetery

Category:20th-century South African male singers

Category:21st-century South African male singers

Category:Blue Thumb Records artists

Category:English-language singers from South Africa