Musician

Hugh Masekela

South African jazz trumpeter

1939 - 2018

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His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2024). Hugh Masekela is the 1,259th most popular musician (up from 1,353rd in 2024), the 104th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 107th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South African Musician.

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Among Musicians

Among musicians, Hugh Masekela ranks 1,259 out of 3,175. Before him are Michael Sembello, Joey Kramer, Greg K., Louis Jordan, Arif Mardin, and Norah Jones. After him are Mieczysław Horszowski, Yoshiki, Richard Marx, Daryl Hall, Phil Campbell, and Jimmy Cobb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Hugh Masekela ranks 360. Before him are Renée Schuurman, Jimmie Nicol, Pierluigi Pizzaballa, Yaakov Neeman, Valentin Afonin, and Carlos Alberto Silva. After him are Alessandra Panaro, Klavdiya Boyarskikh, Günter Bernard, Melinda Dillon, Carmelo Bossi, and Jorge Toro. Among people deceased in 2018, Hugh Masekela ranks 293. Before him are Anne Treisman, Andrei Bitov, Otis Rush, Tony Joe White, Piotr Szulkin, and Angelo Vanzin. After him are George Maxwell Richards, Susan Anspach, Sergei Mavrodi, Ion Ciubuc, Zvonko Bego, and María Dolores Pradera.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Hugh Masekela ranks 104 out of NaN. Before him are Koos de la Rey (1847), Julius Malema (1981), Bruce Grobbelaar (1957), Renée Schuurman (1939), Jamie Uys (1921), and Claude Chevalley (1909). After him are Ernest Leonard Johnson (1891), Alfred Swift (1931), Oscar Pistorius (1986), Max Gluckman (1911), Alan Paton (1903), and John Kani (1943).

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Among Musicians In South Africa

Among musicians born in South Africa, Hugh Masekela ranks 3. Before him are Manfred Mann (1940), and Abdullah Ibrahim (1934). After him are Trevor Rabin (1954), Lucky Dube (1910), Eddie Kramer (1942), J. R. Rotem (1975), Kevin Shirley (1960), and Simphiwe Dana (1980).

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