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Hugh Masekela

Hugh Masekela is a person from ZA, active from 1939.

Person ZA 1939–2018 jazz soul jazz south african
TOTAL PLAYS
156
SONGS PLAYED
60
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2007-12-04 19:00 · 6 Music — "Don't Go Lose It Baby"
LAST PLAYED
6 months ago · Radio 2 — "Son of ice Bag"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2007 — 2025
30 23 15 8 0
'07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 111 71%
Radio 2 43 28%
Radio 1 2 1%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 22:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Grazing In The Grass 42 2025-10-12
2 Motlalepula (Rainmaker) (Radio 1 Session 24 Oct 1984) 10 2023-03-01
3 Johnannesburg (Radio 1 Session 24 Oct 1984) 8 2023-03-01
4 Seraphina (Radio 1 Session 24 Oct 1984) 5 2023-03-01
5 Don't Go Lose It Baby 5 2023-02-18
6 Riot 4 2021-02-15
7 Serhaba - Glastonbury 1985 4 2020-09-03
8 Montlalepula 4 2011-01-24
9 Ashiko 3 2024-04-28
10 Montlalepula - Glastonbury 1985 3 2022-06-21
11 Coal Train - Glastonbury 1985 3 2021-05-31
12 Afro Beat Blues 3 2018-01-23
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2025-11-18 21:18 Son of ice Bag Radio 2
2025-10-12 20:57 Grazing In The Grass Radio 2
2025-08-12 20:08 Mra Radio 2
2025-06-22 11:05 Merci Bon Die 6 Music
2025-05-24 12:00 The Boy's Doin' It (Carl Craig Remix) 6 Music
2025-04-30 22:27 Grazing In The Grass Radio 2
2025-04-30 00:13 Grazing In The Grass Radio 2
2025-04-01 20:22 Sipho Radio 2
2024-11-27 22:20 Grazing In The Grass Radio 2
2024-11-06 22:57 Grazing In The Grass Radio 2
2024-09-21 09:20 Grazing In The Grass 6 Music
2024-09-01 20:09 Grazing In The Grass Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

60 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Afro Beat Blues — 3 ▶
Ashiko — 3 ▶
Bring Him Back Home — 1 ▶
Cantaloupe Island — 1 ▶
Coal Train - Glastonbury 1985 — 3 ▶
Colonial Man — 1 ▶
Do Me So La So So — 1 ▶
Don't Go Lose It Baby — 5 ▶
Don't Go Lose It Baby - Glastonbury 1985 — 1 ▶
Don't Lolse It Baby — 3 ▶
Dyambo — 2 ▶
Dyambo (Sonic Funk Foundry Bayete Disco Rework) — 1 ▶
Dyambo (Sonic Funk Foundry-Selema Rework) — 1 ▶
Emavungwani — 1 ▶
Fuzz — 1 ▶
Grazing In The Grass — 42 ▶
Ha Le Se Li Khanna — 1 ▶
Hush — 1 ▶
If There's Anybody Out There — 1 ▶
Johnannesburg — 1 ▶
Johnannesburg (Radio 1 Session 24 Oct 1984) — 8 ▶
Lady — 3 ▶
Lady - Glastonbury Festival 1985 — 3 ▶
Lady - Glastonbury 1985 — 1 ▶
Mace & Grenades — 1 ▶
Macongo — 1 ▶
Mahlalela — 2 ▶
Mahlalela (feat. Letta Mbulu) — 1 ▶
Makoti (Bride) — 1 ▶
Mandela (Bring Him Back Home!) — 2 ▶
Mandela (Bring Him Back Home) — 1 ▶
Merci Bon Die — 1 ▶
Montlalepula — 4 ▶
Montlalepula - Glastonbury 1985 — 3 ▶
Motlalepula (Rainmaker) — 2 ▶
Motlalepula (Rainmaker) (Radio 1 Session 24 Oct 1984) — 10 ▶
Motlalepula (The Rainmaker) — 1 ▶
Mra — 1 ▶
Night In Tunisia — 1 ▶
Politician - Glastonbury Festival 1985 — 1 ▶
Polotician - Glastonbury 1985 — 1 ▶
Pula Ea Na (It's Raining) (Radio 1 Session 24 Oct 1984) — 1 ▶
Riot — 4 ▶
Run no more — 1 ▶
Seraphina (Radio 1 Session 24 Oct 1984) — 5 ▶
Serhaba — 1 ▶
Serhaba - Glastonbury 1985 — 4 ▶
Serhaba - Glastonbury Festival 1985 — 1 ▶
Sipho — 1 ▶
So Me So La So So — 1 ▶
Son of ice Bag — 1 ▶
Stimela — 2 ▶
Stimela (Coal Train) — 2 ▶
Stop — 1 ▶
Strawberries — 2 ▶
The Boy is Doin' It — 1 ▶
The Boy's Doin' It — 1 ▶
The Boy's Doin' It (Carl Craig Remix) — 2 ▶
U, Dwi — 1 ▶
Unhome — 1 ▶