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Trumpter, activist. Thirty-eight albums; one Kora All Africa Music Award; one BBC Radio Jazz Award; one Friends of the UN Humanitarian Award; one memoir; one anthem of freedom-'Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela).' Take a look at Hugh Masekela's recent autobiography, Still Grazing, and you'll be in awe of the many lives packed into one; the precocious youth growing up outside of Johannesburg (he was given one of Louis Armstrong's trumpets when he was 17); the exile taken in by NY's bebop royalty and artists such as Harry Belafonte, Yehudi Menuhin and Miriam Makebo (the former wife)...Along the way there was the Monterrey Pop Festivals; the 1974 'Rumble in the Jungle' concert in Zaire...Paul Simon's Graceland Tour--but also broken marriages, a battle with addiction...

(Vanity Fair, November '04)

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