... band Caluza's "Silusapho Lwase Afrika (We Are The Children of Africa)" was adopted as an early anthem of the ANC due to its passionate chorus. Caluza's music, which merged choral, ragtime and English musical elements with emotional mourning for the decline of ancient Zulu customs, became popular enough to hasten the growth of the fairly small South African recording industry. Between ... 1939. It has been said that ever since the day in 1954 when Archbishop Trevor Huddleston gave him his trumpet, Masekela has played music that closely reflected his beginnings as a little boy in Witbank....

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