Lucky Dube Biography
Lucky Dube born as Lucky Philip Dube, was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English, and Afrikaans in 25 years and was South Africa’s biggest-selling reggae artist. His album Prisoner was South Africa’s best selling album of the 1980s/90s and Victims sold over 1 Mio copies.
The compilation Serious Reggae Business had phenomenal sales in Ghana. He won over 20 awards in South Africa and internationally. He was on tour for most of his life.
Dube strictly refused to smoke ganja, drink alcohol or using any other drug to be a good example for his children and the youth. He was a peaceful protest against racial discrimination, war, and crime.
Lucky Dube Career
Lucky Dube Music
As a infant Dube worked as a gardener but, as he matured, figuring out that he wasn’t incomes enough to feed his family, he started to attend school. There he joined a choir and with some pals, shaped his first musical ensemble, known as The Skyway Band. While at college he located the Rastafari motion. At the age of 18, Dube joined his cousin’s band, The Love Brothers, playing Zulu pop tune referred to as mbaqanga whilst investment his life-style by means of working for Hole and Cooke as a security guard at the car auctions in Midrand.
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The band signed with Teal Record Company, underneath Richard Siluma (Teal became later included into Gallo Record Company). Though Dube become nevertheless at college, the band recorded cloth in Johannesburg all through his faculty holidays. The resultant album turned into launched under the call Lucky Dube and the Supersoul. The second album turned into released quickly afterward, and this time Dube wrote some of the lyrics similarly to making a song. It changed into around this equal time whilst he began to learn English.
Lucky Dube Age
He was born on 3rd August 1964 in Ermelo, South Africa and died on 18th October 2007 at the age of 43 in Rosettenville, Johannesburg South, South Africa.
Lucky Dube Family
Parents
Lucky Dube was born in Ermelo, previously of the Eastern Transvaal, now of Mpumalanga, on 3rd August 1964. His parents separated earlier than his beginning and he turned into raised with the aid of his mother who named him Lucky due to the fact she taken into consideration his start fortunate after numerous failed pregnancies.
Along with his two siblings, Thandi and Patrick, Dube spent a whole lot of his childhood with his grandmother, Sarah, even as his mother relocated to work. In a 1999 interview, he defined his grandmother as “his finest love” who “increased many things to carry up this responsible character that I am today.”
Lucky Dube Wife
He was married to Zanele Mdluli. When he died, he left behind his lovely wife and seven children, including a month old baby.
Lucky Dube Daughter
South African Reggae Artist and the daughter of the late Lucky Dube, Nkulee Dube, has been quietly making a name for herself abroad in the city that never sleeps.
Having a famous father who made his mark through conscious music inspired Nkulee to follow in his footsteps. She was shattered when Lucky Dube was murdered in October 2007 in Johannesburg.
The legacy of Lucky Dube, who pioneered a distinct variation of reggae enriched with traditional South African music, lives on through his daughter, who mixes that sound with a Jamaican feel.
Lucky Dube Body Measurements
- Height: Not available.
- Weight: Not available.
- Shoe Size: Not available.
- Body Shape: Not available.
- Hair Colour: Black
- Eye colour: Dark brown.
Lucky Dube Salary
Working as a raggae singer his source of income has not yet reveled, or rather we don’t have enough information about Cars, Monthly/Yearly Salary etc. to be updated as soon as it is available.
Lucky Dube Net Worth
He had an approximated net worth of that ranged between $1 Million – $5 Million.
Lucky Dube Death|Cause Of Death
On 18 October 2007, Lucky Dube was killed by robbers at a Johannesburg township called KwaThema shortly after dropping two of his seven children off at their uncle’s house. Dube was driving his Chrysler 300C, which the assailants were after. Police reports suggest he was shot dead by carjackers who did not recognize him and believed that he was Nigerian. Five men were arrested in connection with the murder; three were tried and found guilty on 31 March 2009. Two of the men attempted to escape and were caught. The men were sentenced to life in prison.
Lucky Dube Funeral
The funeral procession was led by white-clad members of Dube’s Shembe faith, following which his body is to be covered in cow skin for burial in a private family ceremony. Dube (43) was gunned down in a botched hijacking in Johannesburg 10 days before his funeral in front of his two children.
Frequently Asked Questions About Lucky Dube
Who is Lucky Dube?
Lucky Dube was best known as a raggae musician and Rastafarian.
How old is Lucky Dube?
He was born on 3 August 1964 in Ermelo, Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa.
How tall is Lucky Dube?
Not known.
Is Lucky Dube married?
He was married to Zanele Mdluli.
How much is Lucky Dube worth?
His net worth ranges between $1 Million – $5 Million.
How much does Lucky Dube make?
Not known.
Is Lucky Dube dead or alive?
He died on October 2007 at an age of 43. He was killed by robbers at a Johannesburg suburb called Rosettenville.
Lucky Dube Zulu Songs
- Lengane Ngeyethu (1981)
- Kudala Ngikuncenga (1982)
- Kukuwe (1983)
- Abathakathi (1984)
- Ngikwethembe Na? (1985)
- Umadakeni (1987)
Lucky Dube Songs
- Back To My Roots
- Can’t Blame You
- Crazy World
- Don’t Cry
- Dracula
- False Prophets
- Group Areas Act
- Hold On
- House Of Exile
- Is This Freedom
- Is This The Way
- It’s Not Easy
- Jah Live
- Love Me
- Mickey Mouse Freedom
- Prisoner
- Reap What You Sow
- Reggae Strong
- Remember Me
- Running, Falling
- Up With Hope (Down With Dope)
- War And Crime
Lucky Dube Album
- I Want to Know What Love Is
- Prisoner
- Think About the Children
- Different Colours, One People
- Together As One
- The Way it Is
- Feel Irie
- Back to My Roots
- Crime & Corruption
- It’s Not Easy
- Reggae Strong
- RastasNever Dies
- Oh My Son (I’m Sorry)
- Remember Me
- House of Exile
- Slave
- Ding-Ding Licky Licky Bong
- Mr. DJ
- Taxman 2004
- Victims
- I’ve Got You, Babe
- Back to My Roots (Live)
- We Love It (Live in Los Angeles)
- Alone Tonight (Demo)
- All This Pain (Live)
Lucky Dube House Of Exile
“House of Exile” is a song by the late South African reggae musician Lucky Dube. Lyrically, “House of Exile,” tells the story of an exiled freedom fighter and his relentless quest to ensure that his people are free. In the mountains of a foreign country, where the freedom fighter has sought refuge, he tries “to send a message” to his beloved people back home.
He wants his people to know that the sole reason why he is still in exile. And what’s this reason? The immense love he has for his nation. He would continue to remain in the jungles fighting until his nation is free at last.
Before going into exile, the fighter had so many things he cherished, including a home and the “love of a girl”. However, he was forced to abandon all these things to become a freedom fighter because his main goal in life is to see nothing but the freedom of his nation. He wants a nation where everybody (regardless of their race, background or color) “will be equal in the eyes of the law”.
Before going into exile, the fighter had so many things he cherished, including a home and the “love of a girl”. However, he was forced to abandon all these things to become a freedom fighter because his main goal in life is to see nothing but the freedom of his nation. He wants a nation where everybody (regardless of their race, background or color) “will be equal in the eyes of the law”.
Lucky Dube Remember Me
Lucky never knew his father, but in the same way, he reached forward to make contact with his son, he reached back to “talk” to his father — as well as to other children in his situation — in yet another intensely personal song.
“My music is about me, my music is me. It talks about my fears, my joys, and everything. Remember Me talks about my father. I don’t know him, I’ve never seen him, maybe I saw him for two or three seconds one year, I can’t remember, but I don’t know him. I wrote that song not necessarily for me, but for all the children that would be in the same situation as me, because I know there are a lot of children out there who don’t know their fathers, who have never seen their fathers.”
Lucky Dube Together As One
This is the song that Lucky acknowledges broke the “political virginity” of the state-run South African Broadcasting Corporation. The title track includes the line: “Too many people hate apartheid, why do you like it”. The first instincts at the SABC were to ban the album, but it was persuaded to reconsider its decision, and an anti-apartheid song received airplay for the first time.
“Together As One was a difficult one. Dave Segal was there and Richard Siluma was there, and when I mentioned the word apartheid — because they didn’t know the song before we did it here so they just heard me singing in the song, “Too many people hate apartheid” — they immediately stopped the tape and they said you can’t say that, you can’t say apartheid. That was what was happening at that time; you couldn’t mention that word in a song, and so we stopped and talked for a while. But eventually, we thought, yes, this is what I wanted to say and this is it.
“That was at a time when South Africa was changing, and we did not have as much trouble as we expected. The SABC wanted books and things, wanting to know where I come from, how I think, and things like that, just checking me out basically. And after that, they played the song.”
Lucky Dube Different Colors One People
Lucky detested racism so much, he even rejected tribal identities that people try to use to categorize him, saying: “I am just a human being. People would ask me if I’m a Zulu or a Swazi or whatever. I’m not that. God did not make Swazis, God did not make Xhosas or Zulus; God made people.” It was inevitable that he would keep putting that ideal into songs.
“I was touring in Australia. They had a human rights association, and they had a campaign that they were doing there. It was called Different Colours One People, trying to get people in Australia together and just showing their different cultures and all the differences that they have there. I liked that title because it was the same here in South Africa and that’s what inspired the song.”
Lucky Dube Reggae Strong For Peace
In 1991, with South Africa in the grips of political violence, the country’s top reggae acts, led by Lucky Dube, decided to play for peace. The result was the Reggae Strong for Peace concert on May 2, 1991, with 14 acts performing at an all-day festival, and coming together at the end to perform a theme song written by Lucky.
“It was kind of difficult to write a song like that which was going to be sung by a lot of different people. I don’t just write a song from nowhere; I mean there’s got to be something that triggers it off. That’s maybe why I have a problem writing a song for some other guy because I write a song about something that has happened to me or to someone next to me, something that I know about, something that I’ve seen, something that I’ve experienced.
“With the Reggae Strong for Peace song, that was like maybe all my experiences in life and so I had to take it and give my experiences to other people to sing. It was a difficult one, but it was cool.”
Lucky Dube, I’ve Got You, Babe
Sometimes, Lucky Dube does sing about the simpler things in life, like love and happiness. “That’s what maybe keeps the world going,” he quips. “Man and woman.” He has no concern that people might confuse the song with an earlier hit by a 1960s duo, pointing out that “there’s a song I know that was written in 1923, called I Love You“.
Lucky Dube Victims
In 1993, Lucky captured the bitterness of a nation at war with itself on his album Victims. Lines such as “still licking wounds from brutality, still licking wounds from humiliation” were among the most heartfelt and angry Lucky had written. Critics described it as a “peace cry”. But when it was suggested Lucky had become a politician, he rejected the idea out of hand.
“I don’t know much about politics, you know, but I know about the truth. I wanted to be a politician myself sometime, but I just didn’t know much about corruption. Maybe that’s why I’m a musician because I can just do what I do and just tell the truth. But if you tell the truth, they say you’re a politician.”
Nevertheless, the album quickly entered the Billboard world music charts, and set the stage for his most extensive world tour yet and the first documentary video on his life, The Man, The Music.
Lucky Dube Back To My Root
In reggae language, getting back to your roots usually means getting back to Mother Africa, but for Lucky, it has an entirely different meaning. After all, he is already deeply grounded in his African roots.
“Reggae music is what I originally wanted to do before I started doing mbaqanga music, but at that time I could not get a contract from a record company as a reggae singer, because reggae was not happening in South Africa. I had to start as a mbaqanga singer and then move on.
“So when I recorded reggae music for the first time, I was saying yes, I’m back to what I originally wanted to do, I’m back to my roots. I’m reggae. I’m reggae. There’s a song I wrote some years ago saying the bed I sleep on is a reggae bed, so even though I do other projects on the side, I’ll always be reggae.”
Lucky Dube Prisoner
If Slave changed Lucky’s life, Prisoner changed the South African recording industry. In five days, the album sold no less than 100 000 copies, and another 120 000 in the next three weeks. Ironically, in the week of its release, eight of South Africa’s longest-serving political prisoners were released from jail, a major step in South Africa’s slow road to democracy. As so many times before, Lucky had unintentionally tapped into the national spirit of freedom hungry South Africans. Yet, he has never regarded his songs as political messages.
“They are all dealing with true and real-life experiences in our day-to-day lives. That’s what they deal with: social issues, even though some people see them as political things.”
Lucky Dube Slave
If Slave changed Lucky’s life, Prisoner changed the South African recording industry. In five days, the album sold no less than 100 000 copies, and another 120 000 in the next three weeks. Ironically, in the week of its release, eight of South Africa’s longest-serving political prisoners were released from jail, a major step in South Africa’s slow road to democracy. As so many times before, Lucky had unintentionally tapped into the national spirit of freedom hungry South Africans. Yet, he has never regarded his songs as political messages.
“They are all dealing with true and real-life experiences in our day-to-day lives. That’s what they deal with: social issues, even though some people see them as political things.”
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