Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh; 3 August 1964 â€" 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 biggest-selling reggae artist. Dube was murdered in the
Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October
2007.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."
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 biggest-selling reggae artist. Dube was murdered in the
Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October
2007.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."
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