Bill Condon directs the Apartheid-era film featuring music from Hugh Masekela, Miriam ‘Mama Africa’ Makeba and Paul Simon
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Erivo: Mark Seliger Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked,” “Harriet”), Thabo Rametsi (“Silverton Siege”) and Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist,” “Ink”) are set to star in “The Road Home,” a musical drama about South African jazz legends Miriam ‘Mama Africa’ Makeba and Hugh Masekela, and their Apartheid-era Graceland tour with Paul Simon.
Award-winning South African star Rametsi will play the renowned trumpeter Masekela, who, exiled from his native South Africa, is pulled between two worlds. In the late 1980s, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, led by his mentor and fierce Anti-Apartheid advocate Archbishop Trevor Huddleston (Oscar nominee Pearce), launched a boycott against Hugh’s friend Paul Simon over his township music-inspired album “Graceland”, accusing Simon of violating the United Nations’ Cultural Boycott. Emmy, Grammy and Tony-winner and Academy Award-nominee Erivo will portray powerhouse vocalist Makeba as she joins forces with Masekela — who sees music as a powerful weapon in the struggle — to create the Graceland band, a super group designed to bring South Africa’s voice to the world.
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