Last time i heard this song i was living in africa (8years old ) and my father was alive… today i just woke up with STIMMELA word in my head and i remembered i once heard Hugh song with my dad. 2024 here i am in luxembourg listening to this song… this guy is a Legend 🎉
This performance should always be available to the world. Hugh Masekela was a power-house -- his vocals and energy here are on a whole other level. I saw him live and it was the best concert I've ever seen. Thank you, Mr. Masekela
Hugh Masekela was a South African trumpeter 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".Hugh Masekela story is a long and exciting one: the two times Grammy awarded artist is Africa´s most important jazz and world musician. He has covered the globe and played with just about every top star you can think of. Hugh Masekela wrote a number of international hits and sold several million This performance should always be available to the world.Hugh Masekela was a power-house - his vocals and energy here are on a whole other level. I saw him live and it was the best concert I've ever seen.Thank you, Mr. Masekela A LEGEND.
Me too. Although I was a lot younger.....wasn't even a teenager. They had shown it on television, think it was BETonJazz in the early 2000s. It sparked a lifelong obsession with African music.
This song reminds me of my beloved uncle who worked in Johannesburg for Anglo American, but lived in Meadowlands Soweto as a back yard dweller. He told us about the horror, the humour and sometimes sobering reality stories of travelling by train.
I got the DVD when it came out in the 90s and this powerhouse performance has stayed with me ever since. What a genius Hugh Masekela was, how he conveys the plight of these poor miners and the train that carried them with every means of expression available and what a support from a band of crack musicians who can turn on a dime, always in total control. Chilling and timeless
Cream of the crop of SA and African musicianship in this performance: Ferdie from Sierra Leone and Okyerema Asante on percussion, Isaac Machale on drums, Ray Phiri from Stimela on Lead guitar and the legendary Bakithi Khumalo on bass. If you want an introduction to African popular music, you will not get better than this
@@cefashanta ahhh bro.....found it. Barney Rachabane from the SA jazz band The Roots, who released a great album called Roots in the mid 70s. Sipho Gumede from Sakhile also played on that record
This performance is so special. I agree with another comment here. It should always be available to the world. The generations of miners shipped and subjected to the mines of South Africa and it's surrounding camps is a story as deep and rich as the slave stories of the Americas. This performance, and it's train sounds captures some of that deepness.
Indeed....it is him. Never heard of him before but he played with Paul Simon from 87 to 2012. So this performance, part of the Graceland tour would have been during that period
