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
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.
💕💯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💕
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.
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
@@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
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
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
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
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
ua-cam.com/video/81NVy-Wda-8/v-deo.html stimela from Nairobi
Greatest stimela performance of all "the energy was amazing"
This concert, at the age of 14, God blessed me to hear music from Africa for the very first time.
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.
Stimela from Nairobi ua-cam.com/video/81NVy-Wda-8/v-deo.html
💕💯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💕
Stimela from Nairobi ua-cam.com/video/81NVy-Wda-8/v-deo.html
ABSOLUTELY incredible performance.
You made me cry Hugh, this is absolute beauty beyond words.
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.
Stimela from Nairobi
Use genius music and it will give you the definitions
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.
ua-cam.com/video/81NVy-Wda-8/v-deo.html stimela from Nairobi
A moment you wish you lived
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
Please who is the man on saxophone?
@@cefashanta you know i don't know....will have to find out
@@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
I was wondering who the members are. Thank you man!
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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
ua-cam.com/video/81NVy-Wda-8/v-deo.html stimela from Nairobi
Awesome. Thanks!
Lucky enough to meet him in Washington DC at the Bukom night club in Adams Morgan in the early 2000's.
Tears drops, love this song
I love this version ❤
Just makes someone cry.
Amazing, thank you! 💪🏾🙏🏾
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
Oh my😮😮😮
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.
God bless you 4ever.
Paul simon saw;heard and said, oh yeah that’s amazing ❤
Goosebumps! 😭
Legendary ❤
Timeless👌🏾
Ke December le dule Ka magaeng abo Lena le tlogele go ema ema❤
THANK GOD ALMIGHTY!!!
wow , unbelievable.
Powerful!!!!
ua-cam.com/video/81NVy-Wda-8/v-deo.html stimela
Good music sounds better with ago.RIP HERO
6:19 My favorite part right here
I kinda like this version of STIMELA its legit
I"m pretty sure that's the great Tony Cedras on keys....on the Yamaha CP70!! My dude!!
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
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Fela vibes
Seriously who is this Saxophone Player!
Who is the saxophonist?
Who is on the Sax?
Ladysmith black mambazo
God bless you 4ever.
God Bless you 4ever.