Legendary artist, Hugh Masekela is dead

African's jazz legend, Hugh Masekela,"the father of South African jazz" as he is frequently called, has passed on at the matured 78.Masekela was a South African trumpeter. He kicked the bucket in Johannesburg in the wake of fighting prostate cancer.This was revealed in an announcement by his family on Tuesday."After an extended and fearless fight with prostate malignancy, he passed gently in Johannesburg, South Africa, encompassed by his family." the announcement peruses Masekela increased worldwide acknowledgment with his particular Afro-Jazz sound and hit tune Soweto Blues.