Marianne Maccaba is a South African singer, an actress and a civil rights activist, who was most active, I think, as a vocalist in the early 60s,

and then got more heavily involved in activism and doing work to aid in the dismantling of apartheid, but also doing work to aid in Black liberation in the States.

And so she, depending on where you come across the story of Maryaaam McAidah, how it arrives to you,

you may know her maybe not even as a musician first, but as a freedom fighter. But what I am interested in

is how she operated at the intersection of both of those things throughout her entire life.

The best way I can describe my understanding of Hume Asakala was through old photos of him.

He was a trumpeter, he played trumpet, and I grew up in a house where there was quite an obsession with trumpet players.

I played trumpet when I was young.

I think my father was excited about trumpet players.

You would see these old images of Hugh Massacela grinning wide and holding a trumpet close to his chest.

And he is someone else whose musical work was vastly intertwined with his justice and liberation work.

He, like Marianne McCabe,, was exiled from South Africa and spent a lot of his time in the spotlight, the American and global spotlight,

working to dismantle apartheid. Hugh Massacela and Marianne McCabe were briefly married. Their marriage maybe lasted

only two years, but they also have a pretty robust collaborative relationship where they

wrote songs for each other, they covered each other's songs,

they performed together, and so there's kind of a lineage between the two that is hard to

separate them from.

I'm Henne Fab Durraki.

From KCRW, this is Lost Notes.

1980, Hugh Masichela and Mariam McKayla.

You just got to give it up, hey, baby, you just got to give it up.

Boom, my.

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