Lucky Dube

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lucky Dube
Occupation	Reggae Singer
Date Of Birth	Aug 3, 1964(1964-08-03)
Age	60
Date Of Death	2007-10-18
Birthplace	Ermelo
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Mpumalanga
Horoscope	Leo

Lucky Dube Biography

Lucky Dube is one of the most popular and richest Reggae Singer who was born on August 3, 1964 in Ermelo, Mpumalanga, South Africa. He is South Africa’s most-recorded reggae artist. His albums were recorded in English, Afrikaans and Zulu. He has released albums such as Help My Krap or Rastas Never Die.

He recorded albums in Afrikaans and English, as can be said for the 1980s South African artist Laurika Smok.

Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh; 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa’s best & biggest-selling reggae artist. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007. He was first married to Thobekile Ngcobo in 1989.

He decided to try the new musical genre and in 1984, released the mini album Rastas Never Die. The record sold poorly – around 4000 units – in comparison to the 30,000 units his mbaqanga records would sell. Keen to suppress anti- apartheid activism, the apartheid regime banned the album in 1985, because of its critical lyrics, for instance in the song “War and Crime”. However, he was not discouraged and continued to perform the reggae tracks live and wrote and produced a second reggae album. Think About The Children (1985). It achieved platinum sales status and established Dube as a popular reggae artist in South Africa, in addition to attracting attention outside his homeland.

He had seven children.

Lucky Dube Net Worth

Lucky Dube is one of the richest Reggae Singer from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lucky Dube 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Before forming The Skyway Band, he worked as a gardener.

In 1996, he was named International Artist of the Year.

Lucky Dube was born in Ermelo, formerly of the Eastern Transvaal, now of Mpumalanga, on 3 August 1964. His parents separated before his birth, and he was raised by his mother, who named him Lucky because she considered his birth fortunate after a number of failed pregnancies. Along with his two siblings, Thandi and Patrick, Dube spent much of his childhood with his grandmother, Sarah, while his mother relocated to work. In a 1999 interview, he described his grandmother as “his greatest love” who “multiplied many things to bring up this responsible individual that I am today.”

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Lucky Dube Dating?

According to our records, Lucky Dube married to Zanele Mdluli. As of December 1, 2023, Lucky Dube’s is not dating anyone.

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On 21 October 2008, Rykodisc released a compilation album entitled Retrospective, which featured many of Dube’s most influential songs as well as previously unreleased tracks in the United States. The album celebrated Dube’s music and honored the contributions he made to South Africa. The Roots Reggae Library has taken steps to store digital versions of the Mbaqange albums made in the 80’s. Five of the six albums have been retrieved. Ngikwethembe Na has yet to be found. As one of the first artists to bring African reggae to the mainstream, Dube bridged cultural gaps within the African diaspora. What Lucky Dube’s music did was “[present] a praxis of cross-culturality and visionary possibility” that the diaspora at large tends to erase. Dube gave Africa a voice and put its culture on the global stage by joining the global reggae community. Through taking Jamaican roots music back to its roots, he recontextualized the oppression and political struggles that reggae seeps itself in, bringing the basis of the diaspora back in conversation with the diaspora at large to allow for a more pan-African form of cultural expression. Dube’s roots reggae brought African people to the table in terms of conversation about the black diaspora by mimicking Caribbean artists’ assertions of African authenticity or racial utopia. Lucky Dube ultimately shows how Africans have to find their way into the conversations of the Black Diaspora by mimicking their assertions of African authenticity or racial utopia. Dube catalyzed roots reggae’s appearance as a popular form of protest song. This helped “legitimize and strengthen the oppositional gesture in popular African music and culture, particularly for those generations born after decolonization.

Facts & Trivia

Lucky Ranked on the list of most popular Reggae Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Lucky Dube celebrates birthday on August 3 of every year.

Was Lucky Dube Zimbabwean?

To those in his inner circles, the hit song Remember Me; gave probably the closest hint of his childhood. Today, five years after his death, uncertainty still surrounds the identity and parentage of the late South African reggae icon, born Lucky Philip Dube, amid revelations that he was born of a Zimbabwean father.

Which song made Lucky Dube famous?

Prisoner. Prisoner is one of Dube’s best known tracks. The song is taken off the album Prisoner (1989), and also appears on the album Captured Live (1990) and Serious Reggae Business (1996).

Who is Lucky Dube's wife?

Zanele Mdluli

Who is the best between Lucky Dube and Bob Marley?

The answer to your question is that Bob Marley was and still is the greatest reggae artist to have ever lived. Lucky Dube was a great musician too though, towards his final years, he had gravitated towards commercial kind of reggae music.

Who is the king of reggae in Africa?

Jamaican musician Robert Nesta Marley, popularly known as Bob Marley , would have been 74 years old today, February 6. Thirty-eight years after he died of skin cancer, he, however, remains wildly celebrated as one of those who popularised reggae or for some, as the ‘King of Reggae’.