The formerly rebel sports of snowboarding, BMX, and skateboarding have been adopted by the Olympics. The bad-boy stars of yesterday are now middle-aged dads. That Masekela became the face of the X Games in the first place was wildly improbable. Masekela split time between marijuana-clouded jazz clubs and going door to door spreading the Truth. Relocating across the country was difficult for him.
During the drive out, he spent rest-stop breaks at pay phones. But on his first morning in Carlsbad, he discovered that his new house sat on top of a steep hill with a view of the ocean, a feature that he credits with shaping the trajectory of his life. He spent his downtime at school paging through back issues of Surfer, neglecting his schoolwork to study board sports. I wanted to be around people who lived it. The tension between his new passion and his commitment to the church began to mount.
At 19, Masekela went to South Africa to meet up with his father, who had recently returned home for the first time in 30 years. It was , and Mandela had just been released from prison.
When he confessed, the elders chose to disfellowship him. During his exile, Masekela remained close with his mother, but the social isolation was a brutal punishment. I held a knife to my wrist in my kitchen many times. He moved to a new congregation in a nearby beach community called Leucadia. In , while working at a restaurant, he crossed paths with several employees from TransWorld Media, which produces board-sports magazines and films, and he charmed his way into a job as a receptionist.
In no time he worked up to sales jobs and small-scale announcing gigs for skateboarding competitions. His circle of friends expanded to include the pros he was interviewing at contests.
The more entrenched he became in action sports, the further he drifted from the church, leaving religion behind for a new gospel. Boks had just folded, and his future was uncertain. He knew he had to do some networking. The event took place in the wake of the first X Games, which was an embarrassment to everybody who cared about action sports. Purple skateboard ramps and clueless commentators left the community and industry furious at how their lifestyle and products had been represented. He got a standing ovation.
By , Masekela had landed a job as a reporter for the Winter X Games. The following summer, when Tony Hawk landed the first , Masekela was standing at the top of the ramp. From there it was pretty much game on. He started as an intern at Transworld Publications. His versatility on-screen saw him join E! Entertainment as a co-host for 'The Daily 10'. The show counted down the top 10 entertainment stories. It aired its last show in October Here he is with Gabrielle Union. Everything changed for him in at a snowboarding conference in Colorado.
Sal premiered his first film, Alekesam, in the Tribeca Film festival. Jason Bergh directed the film. He has also taken part in movies like Point Break and Surf's Up. He now hosts 'Audi Think Faster' where culture icons answer questions from the audience as they drive an Audi R8 as fast as they can. Sal is also an on-air correspondent for National Geographic Explorer. Hugh Masekela children are lucky to have a father who left for them a name that opens doors for them wherever they go.
It has less to do with the Hugh Masekela net worth but more to do with the legacy he left behind. Like his father, he loves music and has defied racial stereotypes by being outstanding in his craft. It was his first time visiting the motherland. He captured this experience through a ten-part series called 'Umlando Through my Father's Eyes'.
Sal travelled throughout South Africa with his father. Sal Masekela dad took his son to where he grew up. Hugh was instrumental in advocating for equality in South Africa. According to him, music and sports go hand in hand with each other. He exercises in the morning and goes to the studio in the afternoon. He bears the name Mabena, but he is not to be confused with the hilarious Mabena videos.
His band is called 'Alekesam'. His name originally came from his creative father who coined it by spelling their name backwards. Alekesam has had its share of success in Hollywood. Despite the open arms of many countries, for 30 years he refused to take citizenship anywhere else on this earth. His belief too strong that the pure evil of a systematic racist oppression could and would be crushed.
Instead he would continue to fight. He was right. To know Hugh Masekela was to know no matter class, creed, color, religion or any other made up distinctions, he stood with empathy and compassion, locked arm in arm with the distressed, displaced and downtrodden everywhere and anywhere on this planet.
He carried a deep seeded belief in justice, freedom and equality for all peoples to the very end. He scoffed at the futile idea of borders defining humanity. Even more than all of that, it was his undying and childlike love for South Africa and the entire African continent; with its dizzying displays of natural beauty, music, art and culture that mesmerized me more than anything.
He was beautifully obsessed with showcasing the endless magic and pageantry of African peoples to a western obsessed world. Click on the link below to hear more about Masekela's influence in jazz and the apartheid struggle Africa must be cautious in how it tackles the triple threat of climate change, inequality and post-pandemic economic recovery.
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