While in school, he joined the choir, where his love for music began. After realizing farming did not meet the cost of living at the time, he decided to back to school. Lucky Dube drew inspiration from Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh, he felt the socio-political messages associated with Jamaican reggae were relevant to a South African audience in an institutionally racist society. He has two siblings Patrick and Thandi Dube. His mother named him Lucky because of the failed pregnancies before his birth. His parents separated before his birth and so he was raised by a single mother, Sarah. Lucky Dube was born in Ermelo, formerly of the Eastern Transvaal, now of Mpumalanga. Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. The reggae musician’s next three albums each won South African Music Awards.
The artist also won the International Artist of the Year at the Ghana Music Awards. In 1996, Lucky Dube was named the Best-Selling African Recording Artist at the World Music Awards. Music Career: He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English, and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest-selling reggae artist.Īwards: In 1989, the reggae artist won four OKTV Awards for Prisoner and won another for Captured Live.
Official Name: Lucky Philip Dube a.k.a Lucky Dubeīorn: 3 August 1964, Ermelo, South Africaĭied: 18 October 2007, Rosettenville, Johannesburg
