
Season 3 · Episode 5
Lost Notes: 1980 - Ep. 5: Hugh Masekela & Miriam Makeba
Lost Notes: Groupies · KCRW
September 24, 202030m 31sExplicit
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Show Notes
<p>In December of 1980, two exiled artists and freedom fighters attempted return to their home in South Africa for a concert. Jazz musician Hugh Masekela and singer Miriam Makeba were briefly married, but they had a robust collaborative relationship that stretched across multiple decades. The 1980 concert wound up happening in neighboring Lesotho — and the performance became about defiance, namely against the Apartheid government in South Africa. But a recording mishap meant the concert needed to be recorded in a more intimate, perhaps even better, setting.</p>