History of lucky dube

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History of lucky dube South African reggae musician and Rastafarian Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh;[1] 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) passed away. He won the Best Selling African Musician honor at the 1996 World Music Awards thanks to his international record sales. Dube addressed issues affecting South Africans and Africans in general to a global audience through his lyrics. He produced 22 albums over a 25-year period, making him the best-selling reggae musician in African history.[2][3] On the evening of October 18, 2007, Dube was killed in the Rosettenville neighborhood.

Johannesburg.[3

Lucky Dube
Lucky Dube
Born	Lucky Philip Dube 3 August 1964 Ermelo, Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa
Died	18 October 2007 (aged 43) Rosettenville, Johannesburg, South Africa
Cause of death	Shotgun wounds
Occupation	Musician
Spouse	Thobekile Ngcobo ​ ​ (m. 1989⁠–⁠2007)​
Musical career
Genres	Reggae, mbaqanga
Instrument(s)	Guitar vocals keyboards
Years active	1981–2007
Labels	Rykodisc, Gallo
Formerly of	The Skyway Band The Love Brothers

Early life

Philip Dube, a Rastafarian and South African reggae artist (pronounced duu-beh;[1] 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007), passed dead. His worldwide record sales helped him win the Best Selling African Musician prize at the 1996 World Music Awards. Dube used his lyrics to communicate with a global audience about issues that concern South Africans and Africans in general. Over a 25-year span, he created 22 albums, making him the best-selling reggae artist in African history.[2][3] Dube was assassinated in Johannesburg’s Rosettenville suburb on the evening of October 18, 2007.[3][4][5]

Musical beginnings

Dube first worked as a gardener but subsequently made the decision to enroll in school to advance his financial situation. There, he joined a choir and started his first band, the Skyway Band, with a few buddies.[8] He learned about the Rastafari movement in school. Dube joined the Love Brothers, a Zulu pop group playing mbaqanga music, when he was eighteen years old. Dube started learning English as the band signed with Teal Record Company and released the album Lucky Dube and the Supersoul.[8] Together with his cousin Richard Siluma, Dube published the Afrikaans album Die Kaapse Dans in 1986. The following year, under the name Oom Hansie, he also released the EP Help My Krap.[9]

Reggae

Dave Segal, who later worked as Dube’s sound engineer, suggested that he get rid of the “Supersoul” part of his moniker before the release of his fifth album. The Lucky Dube name was used for all future albums. The performer began to notice at this point that some of the reggae songs he played at his shows were being well received by his audience. Drawing influence from Jimmy Cliff[10] and Peter Tosh[7], he thought the socio-political concerns contained in Jamaican reggae were pertinent to a South African audience in a systemically racist country.[10]

In 1984, History of lucky dube published the little album Rastas Never Die after deciding to experiment with the new musical style. Compared to his mbaqanga recordings, which would sell 30,000 units, the record did poorly, selling only about 4,000 sales. In an effort to stifle anti-apartheid agitation.

Death

Shortly after dropping off two of his seven children at their uncle’s house in Rosettenville, a suburb of Johannesburg, on October 18, 2007, Lucky Dube was murdered by armed thieves.[15] The attackers were targeting Dube’s Chrysler 300C, which he was driving. According to police sources, he was shot dead by carjackers who mistook him for a Nigerian and could not recognize him.Five men were detained in relation to the murder; three of them were prosecuted and convicted on March 31, 2009. Two of the men were apprehended while making an escape attempt.[18] The life sentences handed out to Dube’s assassins.[19]

MbaqangaEdit

• Lengane Ngeyethu (1981)
• Kudala Ngikuncenga (1982)
• Kukuwe (1983)
• Abathakathi (1984)
• Ngikwethembe Na? (1985)
• Umadakeni (1987)

with Oom HansieEdit

• Die Kaapse Dans (1986)
• Help My Krap (EP, 1986)

ReggaeEdit

• Rastas Never Dies (EP, 1984)
• Remember Me (1994)
• Think About the Children (1985)
• Slave (1987)
• Together as One (1988)
• Prisoner (1989)
• Captured Live (1990)
• House of Exile (1991)
• Victims (1993)
• Trinity (1995)
• Taxman (1997)
• The Way It Is (1999)
• Soul Taker (2001)
• The Other Side (2003)
• Respect (2006)

CompilationsEdit

• Serious Reggae Business (1996)
• Live in Jamaica (2000)
• The Rough Guide to Lucky Dube (2001)
• Lucky Dube Live in Uganda (2003)
• Retrospective (2008)
• The Ultimate Lucky Dube (2011)
• The Times We’ve Shared (2017)
• Getting Lucky (1985)
• Lucky Strikes Back (1987)
• Voice in the Dark (1990

1.  Fun Facts, luckydubemusic.com, Retrieved 19 October 2007
2. ^ Jump up to:^a b c Five facts about reggae star Lucky Dube, Reuters, 19 October 2007
3. ^ Jump up to:^a b S.Africa reggae icon shot and killed – radio Archived 21 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Reuters, 19 October 2007.
4. ^ Hijackers gun down Lucky Dube Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, News24.com, 19 October 2007
5. ^ S African reggae star shot dead, BBC News, 19 October 2007,
6. ^ Car jacker kills reggae star, CNN, 19 October 2007.
7. ^ Jump up to:^a b “Getting Lucky”. The Mail & Guardian. 26 August 1999. Archived from the original on 11 September 2007. Retrieved 20 October 2007.
8. ^ Jump up to:^a b c d Finding reggae, luckydubemusic.com, Retrieved 19 October 2007
9. ^ “Richard Siluma”. discogs.com. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
10. ^ Jump up to:^a b c d Basildon Petain, South African reggae star shot dead in front of his children Archived 21 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, The Independent, 19 October 2007.
11. ^ Condolences pour in for Lucky Dube Archived 21 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine, SABC, 19 October 2007.
12. ^ Jump up to:^a b c Discography, luckydubemusic.com, Retrieved 19 October 2007
13. ^ Who’s Who: Lucky Dube Archived 23 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, News24, Retrieved 10 October 2007
14. ^ Chude-Sokei, Louis (2011). “When Echoes Return: roots, diaspora and possible Africas (a eulogy)”. Transition (104): 76–92. doi:10.2979/transition.2011.-.104.76.
15. ^ “S. African Reggae Star Lucky Dube Killed in Attempted Car-Jacking | Voice of America – English”. Voanews.com. 27 October 2009. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
16. ^ “Why Lucky Dube was killed – IOL News”. Iol.co.za. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
17. ^ “Four arrests over SA star’s death”. BBC News. 21 October 2007.
18. ^ Three Accused of the Murder of Lucky Dube Found Guilty Yahoo News, 31 March 2009
19. ^ Reggae Star’s Killers Get Life Independent, 3 April 2009.
20. ^ Lucky Dube – Bio|Artists|RYKODISC Archived 1 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
21. ^ de Vries, Anton E. (2015). “Lucky Dube”. roots-reggae-library.com. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
22. ^ Derek Ekhoe. “Bongi Dube Almost Lost Her Life After an Accident”. HitNaija. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
23. ^ Jump up to:^a b Chude-Sokei, Louis (27 January 2011). “When Echoes Return: roots, diaspora and possible Africas (a eulogy)”. Transition. 104: 76–92. doi:10.2979/transition.2011.-.104.76. Retrieved 3 January 2019 – via Project MUSE.
24. ^ Stevens, Rhiannon (15 October 2019). “‘Bigger than the Beatles’: The legacy of Lucky Dube”. ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 16 October 2019.

• Sean Barlow & Banning Eyre, Afropop! An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary African Music (Book Sales, August 1995). ISBN 0-7858-0443-9, ISBN 978-0-7858-0443-7

• Lucky Dube at IMDb