U-Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (4 ngoMbasa 1939 - 23 ngoMasingana 2018) uyi-trumpeter, flugelhorn ist, cornet, umculi nomculi. Wayenguyise womethuli waseMelika uSal Masekela. Wayaziwa ngezingoma zakhe ze-jazz, kanye nokubhala owaziwa kakhulu ngezingoma ezazilwa nobandlululo njenge "Soweto Blues" nethi "Bring Him Back Home". UMasekela wazalwa Kwa-Guqa Township, eWitbank, eNingizimu Afrika. Waqala ukucula nokudlala ipiyano esemncane. Lapho eneminyaka engama-14, ngemva kokubona ifilimu esihloko sithi Young Man with a Horn (lapho u-Kirk Douglas idlala khona umlingiswa ohlongozwayo e-American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, uMasekela waqala ukudlala icilongo efundiswa U-Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, umfundisi omkhulu owayelwa nobandlululo eSt. Peter's Secondary School. U-Huddleston ubuze umholi we-"Johannesburg" Owamantombazane "kaMasipala waseBrass Band, uMalume Sauda, ​​ukuthi afundise uMasekela amacilongo okudlala amacilongo. UMasekela washeshe wazi kahle insimbi. Ngokushesha, abanye abafunda naye nabo baqala ukuthakazela ukudlala izinsimbi, okuholela ekwakheni i-Huddleston Jazz Band, eNingizimu Afrika yokuqala ye-orchestra yomusha. Ngo-1956, ngemuva kokuhola ezinye izinhlangano, uMasekela wajoyina i-Alfred Herbert i-African Jazz Revue.