# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-masekela
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:07:03.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-masekela"
name: "Hugh Masekela"
slug: "hugh-masekela"
description: "Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as \"the father of South African jazz\". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as \"Soweto Blues\" and \"Bring Him Back Home\". He also had a number-one US pop hit in 1968 with the song \"Grazing in the Grass\", which was later covered by various other artists."
tagline: "South African jazz trumpeter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Womex2011_-_Crawfurd6468_(6299756789).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-04-04"
deathDate: "2018-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           72.09
  momentum:             19.09315068493151
  historical:           23.72958
  currentAttention:     56.41609589041097
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  11
  category: null
totalFollowers: 12900
platforms:
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    handle:    "hughmasekela"
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  - platform:  "IMDB"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
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    handle:    "Hugh Masekela - Topic"
    followers: 12900
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "હ્યુ માસેકેલા"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-country-fill