Composer Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela
Living place: South Africa
Birthday: 4-4-1939 (85 years old)
Global rank: #60163
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Who is Composer Hugh Masekela?
Jazz trumpet player and singer who used his music to bring blacks and whites together and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1968. He is best known as a member of Johnny Gertze, First major African jazz group to record an LP.
His song "Grass in the Grass" has sold over four million copies in the United States.
Jazz trumpet player and singer who used his music to bring blacks and whites together and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1968. He is best known as a member of Johnny Gertze, First major African jazz group to record an LP.
His song "Grass in the Grass" has sold over four million copies in the United States.
His first trumpet was a gift from the Anti-apartheid Chaplain St. Peter of Archbishop Trevor Huddleston. He was in the orchestra for "King Kong", the first stage musical to experience widespread success in South Africa.
He was previously married to Grammy Award-winning singer Miriam Makeba. He is the father of the television show Sal Masekela.
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He was inspired to learn the trumpet after seeing "Young Man With a Horn," starring Kirk Douglas as a character based on the jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke.
He was inspired to learn the trumpet after seeing "Young Man With a Horn," starring Kirk Douglas as a character based on the jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke.
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When was Composer Hugh Masekela born?
Hugh Masekela birthday 4-4-1939 (at the age of 85).
Where is Composer Hugh Masekela's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Hugh Masekela was born in South Africa. Là Composer, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Hugh Masekela's global rank is 60163 and whose rank is 470 in list of famous Composer.
Hugh Masekela birthday 4-4-1939 (at the age of 85).
Where is Composer Hugh Masekela's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Hugh Masekela was born in South Africa. Là Composer, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Hugh Masekela's global rank is 60163 and whose rank is 470 in list of famous Composer.
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Events in 1939 and 4-4
Events in the world in the birth year of Hugh Masekela
- Germany invades Poland; occupies Bohemia and Moravia; renounces pact with England and concludes 10-year non-aggression pact with U.S.S.R.
- Russo-Finnish War begins; Finns to lose one-tenth of territory in 1940 peace treaty.
- World War II begins.
Birthday Hugh Masekela (4-4) in history
- Day 4-4 year 1818: Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state.
- Day 4-4 year 1841: President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration.
- Day 4-4 year 1905: Earthquake in Kangra, India, killed more than 20,000.
- Day 4-4 year 1945: The Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation.
- Day 4-4 year 1949: The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed.
- Day 4-4 year 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.
- Day 4-4 year 1973: The ribbon was cut to open the World Trade Center in New York City.
- Day 4-4 year 1979: Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed by the military.
- Day 4-4 year 1981: Henry Cisneros became the mayor of San Antonio, Texas: the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city.
- Day 4-4 year 1983: Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
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