Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (b. Witbank, South Africa, April 4, 1939) is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. Early life He began singing and playing piano as a child. At age 14, after seeing the film Young Man With a Horn (in which Kirk Douglas portrays American jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke), he took up playing the trumpet. His first trumpet was given to him by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the anti-apartheid chaplain at St. Peters Secondary School.Fairweather, Digby. The Rough Guide to Jazz, St. Martin's Press (2004), page 13 - ISBN 0312278705 Huddleston asked the leader of the then Johannesburg "Native" Municipal Brass Band, Uncle Sauda, to teach Masakela the rudiments of trumpet playing. Masakela quickly mastered the instrument. Soon, some of Masakela's schoolmates also became interested in playing instruments, leading to the formation of the Huddleston J

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