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Ghanaian highlife sensation and songwriter, George Kwabena Adu, known in showbiz as Kwabena Kwabena, has shared the highest point he has ever reached since he commenced his music career.
He said his first meeting with South African's late singer and trumpeter, Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was a dream he had always wished to come true.
"There has been so many highest points but the highest was meeting the legendary High Masekela," he said.
The ‘Adult Music’ composer disclosed this in an interview with Joy Prime’s Roselyn Felli on the Prime Morning show on Thursday.
Recounting the moment, he said, “It was a dream come true, and the fact that he came into this country and knowing the name Kwabena Kwabena, wanted me on his concert and wanted me to sing one of his great tunes.”
Being a young and upcoming artist at the time, Kwabena Kwabena deemed that recognition a pleasure and held it in high esteem as he embraced the opportunity.
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 his version of "Grazing in the Grass.” Masekela was sent to learn the rudiments of trumpet playing at Johannesburg "Native" Municipal Brass Band, which he quickly mastered.
In 1987, he released a hit single titled "Bring Him Back Home." The song became enormously popular and turned into an unofficial anthem of the anti-apartheid movement and an anthem for the movement to free Nelson Mandela.
In 2006, Masekela was described by a professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University as "the father of African jazz and was honoured with a Google Doodle on April 4, 2019, which would have been his 80th birthday.
The late trumpeter was nominated for a Grammy Award three times, including a nomination for Best World Music Album for his 2012 album. Masekela has composed a lot of hit songs, including ‘No Woman, No Cry', and has featured artists across the world, with Ghana’s songstress Becca included.
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