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Hugh Masekela
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (b. Witbank, South Africa, April 4, 1939) is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer.
He began playing the gramophone at the age of 2. Later singing and playing piano as a child. At age 14, after seeing the film Young Man With a Horn (in...
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