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Speaker 1: Liz is Breakfast with Bongani on seven O two.

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Speaker 2: Little the music lives on, the horn keeps blowing. It's

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Speaker 2: been years, of course since we lost the legendary Brahu Macegla,

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Speaker 2: but his music, his message, certainly, I think his spirit

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Speaker 2: still echoes across generations, and now the Joebic Theater wants

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Speaker 2: to bring that legacy back to life with a powerful

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Speaker 2: four day tribute tribute that won't just be about remembering Brahu,

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Speaker 2: but really celebrating his sound and how it shaped South

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Speaker 2: Africa's identity from jazz to afropop. It's about honoring a

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Speaker 2: man whose trumpet told our stories to the world. Pula

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Speaker 2: Tila joins us now to talk to us about her

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Speaker 2: father's legacy and of course, the Humor Segula Heritage Foundation,

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Speaker 2: where she is a board member.

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Speaker 1: Pull very good morning to you. Thank you for your

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Speaker 1: time today.

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Speaker 3: Good mind named Banet, thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: I always think about what it must be like to

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Speaker 2: have a famous father whom everybody feels a sense of

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Speaker 2: ownership over.

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Speaker 3: Well, he was a man of the people, so it's

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Speaker 3: all I've ever known.

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Speaker 1: You were happy to share him with us.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Yeah, definitely, He's done so much beautiful stuff that

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Speaker 3: it's worth it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, we appreciate that you continue to give

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Speaker 2: to us who he is and what his music has

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Speaker 2: stood for. So what does a tribute like this to

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Speaker 2: your father mean to you on a personal level?

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Speaker 3: I think the beauty of it really is the fact

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Speaker 3: that I mean for status, April is his birthday month

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Speaker 3: on the forties, his birthday, and so we're excited to

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Speaker 3: join forces with Job of Theater to celebrate that. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if it's so much on a personal level,

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Speaker 3: but really for his own personal reasons, Like he loved music.

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Speaker 3: He loved for their to always beat, you know, so

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Speaker 3: much sounds, so much performance, so much collaboration, and so

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Speaker 3: it just makes us happy that we're able to have

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Speaker 3: musicians young and also still continuing something that he loved

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Speaker 3: so much.

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Speaker 2: Well, talk to us about what we can expect. But

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Speaker 2: are some of the big names that are going to

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Speaker 2: be part of this tribute.

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Speaker 3: So we're excited because we have Vusi Marfacella who worked

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Speaker 3: with him, and we also have Treso who worked with him,

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Speaker 3: and we have Zoe Modija who's always been very close

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Speaker 3: to the foundation she's worked with us many times at

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Speaker 3: the U first and as well as Judith Supuma who's

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Speaker 3: also worked with Bright Hue. And then we have two

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Speaker 3: a cappella bands, which is the Baobab Sisters and Complete,

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Speaker 3: whom he both taught a lot of music, so he

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Speaker 3: was their mentor. So it's beautiful to come and see

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Speaker 3: the menties getting on stage and coming to also celebrate

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Speaker 3: the music he taught them.

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Speaker 2: And of course it's going to be over this four

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Speaker 2: day period and it starts on the thirtieth of March.

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Speaker 1: Am I correct?

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Speaker 3: Now it's it's from the ninth to the twelfth of April,

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Speaker 3: so it's four nights at the job. Yes, rehearsal today

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Speaker 3: we are from today, we are rehearsing like crazy excited.

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Speaker 3: See we have James and Norble, you know, who brings

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Speaker 3: so much drama and theater too, anything that he puts

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Speaker 3: on stage. And we have Signima Bunka who's got the

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Speaker 3: big band. We've got a lot of horns obviously percussion,

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Speaker 3: so we're very excited. It's a big band presentation and yeah,

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Speaker 3: James brings the drama to it. So the rehearsal starts today.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean James is always going to be James

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Speaker 2: Noble and we love him for that.

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Speaker 1: Obso yeah, but Hugh was obviously, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, yeah, first and foremost musician, but also his activism

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Speaker 2: was very much a part of that music and that personality.

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Speaker 1: And he didn't always you know, he didn't always say

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Speaker 1: things people wanted.

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Speaker 2: To hear, but he certainly spoke up about what the

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Speaker 2: things we needed to hear.

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Speaker 1: What do you think he might be saying to us

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Speaker 1: at a time like this.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a thing of coming back to community

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Speaker 3: and collaboration. You know what people forget about, like every

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Speaker 3: every time anything is tough in the world, we have

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Speaker 3: to begin, like between between our four walls. First, you know,

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Speaker 3: how we relate with one another, what we teach each other,

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Speaker 3: what we learn from each other. And I've said over

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Speaker 3: and over, you know, one of his favorite things, or

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Speaker 3: at least if he had signed anything from you, it'd

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Speaker 3: always said love, learn, and teach. And those are the

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Speaker 3: things that begin at home, that begin in communities, that

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Speaker 3: begin in school. And I think it would be like,

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Speaker 3: let's reflect back to starting that way too, our fellow

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Speaker 3: men right next to us, how you treat this person,

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Speaker 3: loving them, learning, from them, teaching them and always being

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Speaker 3: in a place where you know you always bring a

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Speaker 3: sense of community and collaboration to any space. You only

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Speaker 3: stand to grow from that.

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Speaker 1: Ah Man, appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: You put it really well there, Bulatola the daughter of

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Speaker 2: Brahu Masegella. That tribute concert happening at the Joeberg Theatre

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Speaker 2: in Bramfontein four days only, nine to twelve April twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six.

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Speaker 1: You can get tickets at the Joebak Theater box office

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Speaker 1: or at web Tickets