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Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh; [1] 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. His record sales across the world earned him the Best Selling African Musician prize at the 1996 World Music Awards. In his lyrics, Dube discussed issues affecting South Africans and Africans in general to a global ...
The title track, about black-on-black crime, references Bob Marley's "Redemption Song". [7] [8] "Keep On Knocking" is about the love of a mother for her child. [9] Lucky Dube based his lyrics on the experiences of real people, rather than news coverage of political events. [10] Lucky Dube used a horn section and emphasized a more rock guitar ...
Into the 1990s, Lucky Dube was one of the best-selling artists in South African history, especially his 1990 album Slave. The 1990s also saw Jamaican music move towards ragga , an electronic style that was more influential on kwaito (South African hip hop music ) than reggae.
The most notable event, however, was the Lucky Dube show that took place at Ngong Racecourse on 4 December 1998, dubbed the most spectacular music event ever staged in Kenya, it included other notable reggae artists like Levi Roots, Johnny Clark, and Jah Shakah. According to a journalist at nation media, 'Lucky Dube gave-it-all stage gymnastics ...
Reggae is perhaps most popular in the Ivory Coast.Former member of The Wailers Tyrone Downie said in an interview: "The first time I went to Abidjan, I was astonished by the fact that all cafés played reggae, all bands played reggae, you could hear reggae everywhere, in taxis, at people’s houses, at dances, in the ghetto, EVERYWHERE!".
"My parents and early friends put me in a position to have a wonderful life and be extremely lucky and be at the center of the digital revolution,” he tells PEOPLE — so he thought ...
Lucky Dube recorded 25 albums, fusing reggae with Mbaqanga. The Marcus Garvey Rasta camp in Phillipi is regarded by many to be the reggae and Rastafari center of Cape Town. Reggae bands play regularly at community centres such as the Zolani center in Nyanga. In Uganda musician Papa Cidy is very popular.
Amid the hills and history of Jamestown, Tennessee (Mark Twain’s parents lived there many moons ago), there’s a place where pigs rule the roost — well, technically, the pastures, mud wallows ...