Full Biography
Hugh Masekela was born in the Witbank township of KwaGuqa (now named Emalahleni), South Africa, to health inspector and sculptor Thomas Selena Masekela and social worker Pauline Bowers Masekela. Barbara Masekela, his younger sister, is a poet, schoolteacher, and ANC activist.
Hugh Masekela began singing and playing the piano as a toddler and was mostly raised by his grandmother, who managed an illegal tavern for miners. Hugh Masekela began playing the trumpet at the age of 14 after viewing the 1950 film Young Man with a Horn (in which Kirk Douglas portrays a character modeled after American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke).
Height and weight
Thomas Selema Masekela’s height and weight are unknown
Nationality & Ethnicity
Thomas Selema Masekela is a citizen of South Africa with a black accent.
Education
Thomas Selema Masekela’s educational background is unknown
Any Other Information
On December 16, 1908, Thomas Selema Masekela was born in Madibeng farm near Dikgale near Pietersburg, Transvaal. Masekela’s parents relocated from the farm where he was born to Dikgale, where he attended the Lutheran Mogabane mission station school and passed Standard III.
