Then I didn’t die and so they said well, he’s very lucky, he’s a very lucky boy. They would just call me the boy or the child. I didn’t have a name until I was maybe, about what – six months old. I got very sick and they thought I’m going to die too (talking about the death of his younger brother). When she heard that I wanted to do music as a career that wasn’t her idea of a future for me. She wanted a doctor or a lawyer in the family. I do music to entertain, to educate, and to unite people. People have been separated for a long time. The hope of the music is of course, that of getting people together. It was scary – even listening to Peter Tosh or Bob Marley as you could disappear if the government caught you listening to it. I saw that in South Africa you could not do reggae, as the then apartheid government didn’t like it.
So all the things that I write about are things that people relate to, things that have happened to people, one time or another. There’s no song that I have written that is just an imaginary thing. I write music about real things that are happening to real people. Music I think should be teaching and talking to people about important things in life. Musicians have always educated people through music, you know even though now a days a lot of music just talks about sex, women, and drugs. It is a lot of messages to different people in different situations – reggae is relevant to their situation. Dube was 43 years old when he passed away.Ĭheck out these albums by Lucky Dube: “ House of Exile“, “ Slave“, “ Lucky Dube: Live in Concert DVD” and “ Best of Luck Dube“. Lucky Dube died on the 18th of October, 2007 in Rosettenville, South Africa. His life was cut short when he was robbed and murdered by carjackers in Johannesburg. Lucky Dube had 7 children and was married to Thobekile Ngcobo. Mini biography: Born Lucky Philip Dube on the 3rd of August, 1964 in Mpumalanga, South Africa. During his career as a musician he released more than twenty albums in Zulu, Afrikaans and English. Lucky Dube is a famous South African reggae singer who sang songs of unity and inspiration.
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