Hugh Masekela - STIMELA live GRACELAND-1987 720p

Not my video, just saving some great music.

[darefamosayin]

Who's here in 2025? Missed this man a lot.

[iliasfernandes]

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 🎉

[thabisomtshali]

Greatest stimela performance of all "the energy was amazing"

[nicolasderuiter]

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

[rubyledbetter]

Amen … first time.. I feel the suffrage of my people in the South Africa region.
My DNA roots must be from there. I’m a USA descendant of those who build this Country from free labor. Thank you God Bless Your Message.

[jahblessraa]

This concert, at the age of 14, God blessed me to hear music from Africa for the very first time.

[robertwada]

💕💯Hugh Masekela was a South African trumpeter singer and composer who was described as"the father of South African jazz Masekela was known for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs Hugh Masekela story is long and exciting Africa´s most important jazz and world musician He has covered the globe and played with just about every one Hugh masekela was a power-house his vocals and energy were on another level saw him live it was the best concert I've ever seen A LEGEND💕

[samukelomadide]

Real music, live raw talent. AHH south Africa the land of the greats😢😢sadly we don't appreciate them when they can still smell their flowers

[marwannadar]

Don't understand what the words mean but it's coming out of his soul even beyond his soul. Magnificent and realistic. Thank you Mr Hugh.

[saxgomez]

You made me cry Hugh, this is absolute beauty beyond words.

[diment]

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

[juanestadian]

Cream of the crop of SA and African musicianship in this performance: Ferdie from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 and Okyerema Asante from 🇬🇭 on percussion, the late Isaac Machale on drums, Ray Phiri from Stimela on Lead guitar and the legendary Bakithi Khumalo on bass and Tony Cedras of keyboards. If you want an introduction to African popular music, you will not get better than this

[clauderoxboroughiii]

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.

[solanimathebula]

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.

[RasMidnite]

Lucky enough to meet him in Washington DC at the Bukom night club in Adams Morgan in the early 2000's.

[joewestfall]

Paul simon saw;heard and said, oh yeah that’s amazing ❤

[jakobamodise]

Hugh, forever in our hearts and minds, long live Hugh. This song is about the development of the mining industry under British rule in South Africa.the 'tshuku' trading bringing labour from all over the so-called british_africa

[vusimabena]

Thumbs to the camera Department or them❤📸📷

[PieterMoloto-zv]

Ke December le dule Ka magaeng abo Lena le tlogele go ema ema❤

[FedericoGPena]

I"m pretty sure that's the great Tony Cedras on keys....on the Yamaha CP70!! My dude!!