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Selema Masekela parents-American TV host and actor, Selema Masekela was born on August 28th, 1971 in Los Angeles in the United States of America.

He went to Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, California after growing up in Staten Island, New York, where he was in the same class as rapper Method Man.

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Masekela and Jason Bergh co-founded Berkela Motion Pictures. Masekela’s upbringing drove him to Southern California as a teenager, where he first encountered skateboarding, snowboarding, and surfing.

In 1992, Masekela started working for Transworld Publications, the publisher of TW Snow, TW Skateboarding, and TW Surf magazines, as an intern. During the 2003–2004 NBA season, he worked as a sideline reporter for ESPN. Up to its cancellation on September 27, 2010, Masekela co-hosted The Daily 10, a list of the “top 10” entertainment stories of the day on the E! network (last show Oct 1, 2010).

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For 13 years, he also served as the host of the X Games and Winter X Games on ESPN. However, he departed the network in 2012 to take a job with NBC and the NBC Sports Network under a deal with Red Bull Media House.

He performs the song “Hello World” in the “Green” Yo Gabba Gabba episode, which aired on Nick Jr. on April 22, 2009. His services as a correspondent for ESPN’s coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa were solicited in 2010.

As a correspondent, Masekela appeared alongside his father, Hugh, in a number of ESPN videos. During ESPN’s coverage of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, a 10-part documentary titled “Umlando – Through my Father’s Eyes” was shown.

Hugh and Selema’s journeys through South Africa were the main subject of the TV show. Hugh took his child to the sites where he was raised. It was Selema’s first visit to the country of his father.

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Masekela, a New York native, and his father, the South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela, traveled much when they were young. Alekesam, the name of Masekela’s own band, was also the title of his debut movie, which was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012 and chronicled his relationship with his father and how they connected via music.

Alekesam’s music has appeared on Entourage and House of Lies, and the season four debut of the Showtime hit featured their most recent tune, “All Is Forgiven.” Masekela has emceed live events such as Google’s Zeitgeist, YouTube Live on Stage from the Kennedy Center, and YouTube’s Brandcast in New York and Paris.

Masekela worked as a features reporter for NBC’s nationally syndicated Olympic Zone at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi as part of the network’s coverage of those events. In 2015, he became an executive producer and correspondent for the HBO branch of the Emmy-winning investigative program VICE.

He also had an appearance in the remake of the cult classic Point Break that same year. Masekela began hosting and producing the VICE World of Sports documentary series in April 2016.

The show carried viewers all across the globe to learn about the people, politics, and cultures of each place via sports. On April 22, the series made its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Masekela collaborates with UX Entertainment, a production business. UXE is a Los Angeles-based company that specializes in animation, movies, commercials, and music videos.

Who are Selema Masekela’s parents?

Masekela was born to Hugh Masekela and a Haitian mother named Jessie Marie Lapierre. He shares the same parents with Nathan Gonzales.

His father was a South African jazz musician. He was also a trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as “the father of South African jazz”.

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