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Lucky Dube

Background information
Birth name Lucky Philip Dube
Born August 3, 1964(1964-08-03)
Origin Ermelo, Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa Flag of South Africa
Died October 18, 2007 (aged 43)
Rosettenville, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Flag of South Africa (murder)
Genre(s) reggae, mbaqanga. Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Ermelo is the educational industrial and commercial centre of a 7750 km² district in Mpumalanga province Republic of South Africa. For the Russian theme park see Transvaal Park. The Transvaal (Afrikaans lit Mpumalanga, (umˈpuːməlɑŋɡə – name changed from Eastern Transvaal on 24 August 1995) is a province of South Africa The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Rosettenville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 9. Johannesburg ( Pronounced /jō-hān'ĭs-bûrg'/ is the largest city in South Africa. Gauteng (xaʊˈtɛŋ Sotho xɑ́útʼèŋ̀ is a province of South Africa. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Reggae is a Music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s Mbaqanga is a style of South African Music with Rural Zulu roots that continues to influence musicians worldwide today
Occupation(s) Singer, Keyboards
Years active 1982 - 2007
Website Official website

Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced doo-bay)[1] (August 3, 1964 – October 18, 2007) was a South African reggae musician. A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard. Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Reggae is a Music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist. Zulu (called isiZulu in Zulu is a Language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers the vast majority (over 95% of whom live in South English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from 17th century Dutch and classified as Low Franconian Germanic, mainly spoken in [2][3] Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007. Johannesburg ( Pronounced /jō-hān'ĭs-bûrg'/ is the largest city in South Africa. Rosettenville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 9. Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. [3][4][5]

Contents

Biography

Early life

Lucky Dube was born in Ermelo, then in the Eastern Transvaal, near the house now Mpumalanga, on 3 August 1964. Ermelo is the educational industrial and commercial centre of a 7750 km² district in Mpumalanga province Republic of South Africa. Mpumalanga, (umˈpuːməlɑŋɡə – name changed from Eastern Transvaal on 24 August 1995) is a province of South Africa Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. His parents separated before his birth and he was raised by his mother, Sarah, who named him because she considered his birth fortunate after a number of failed pregnancies. [6] Along with his two siblings, Thandi and Patrick, Dube spent much of his childhood with his grandmother, 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. " [7] [8]

Beginning of his musical career

As a child Dube worked as a gardener but, realizing that he wasn't earning enough to feed his family, he began to attend school. There he joined a choir and, with some friends, formed his first musical ensemble, called The Skyway Band. A musical ensemble is a group of two or more Musicians who perform instrumental or vocal Music. [8] While at school he discovered the Rastafari movement. The Rastafari movement (also known as Rastafari, Rastafarianism or simply Rasta) is a monotheistic, Abrahamic, New Testament At the age of 18 Dube joined his cousin's band, The Love Brothers, playing Zulu pop music known as mbaqanga. Mbaqanga is a style of South African Music with Rural Zulu roots that continues to influence musicians worldwide today The band signed with Teal Record Company, under Richard Siluma (Teal was later incorporated into Gallo Record Company). Gallo Record Company is the largest (and oldest independent Record label in Africa. Though Dube was still at school, the band recorded material in Johannesburg during his school holidays. The resultant album was released under the name Lucky Dube and the Supersoul. The second album was released soon afterwards, and this time Dube wrote some of the lyrics in addition to singing. Around this time he also began to learn English. [8]

Moving into reggae

On the release of his fifth Mbaqanga album, Dave Segal (who became Dube's sound engineer) encouraged him to drop the "Supersoul" element of the name. All subsequent albums were recorded as Lucky Dube. At this time Dube began to note fans were responding positively to some reggae songs he played during live concerts. A concert is a live Performance, usually of Music, before an Audience. Drawing inspiration from Jimmy Cliff [9] and Peter Tosh,[7] he felt the socio-political messages associated with Jamaican reggae were relevant to a South African audience in an institutionally racist society. Jimmy Cliff OM (born James Chambers, 1 April 1948, Somerton District St Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh ( October 19 1944 &ndash September 11 1987) was a a Reggae musician who was Institutional Racism (or structural racism or systemic racism) refers to a form of Racism which occurs specifically in institutions such as public [9]

He decided to try the new musical genre and in 1984, released the mini album Rastas Never Die. An extended play ( EP) is a Vinyl record, CD, or Music download which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify The record sold poorly - around 4000 units - in comparison to the 30000 units his mbaqanga records would sell. Keen to suppress anti-apartheid activism, the apartheid regime banned the album in 1985. [10] 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. [8]

Commercial and critical success

Dube continued to release commercially successful albums. In 1989 he won four OKTV Awards for Prisoner, won another for Captured Live the following year and yet another two for House Of Exile the year after. [11] His 1993 album, Victims sold over one million copies worldwide. [2] In 1995 he earned a worldwide recording contract with Motown. "Motown" redirects here For the city see Detroit Michigan. His album Trinity was the first release on Tabu Records after Motown's acquisition of the label. Tabu Productions was founded by Clarence Avant. Avant founded this label after Sussex Records went out of business in June 1975 and Internal Revenue Service auctioned [11]

In 1996 he released a compilation album, Serious Reggae Business, which led to him being named the "Best Selling African Recording Artist" at the World Music Awards and the "International Artist Of The Year" at the Ghana Music Awards. A compilation album is an Album ( Music or Spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple Recording artists, often culled from a variety of The World Music Awards (founded in 1989 is an international awards show that annually honors Recording artists based on their worldwide sales figures which are provided by the His next three albums each won South African Music Awards. The South African Music Awards (SAMAs is an annual celebration of the best of South Africa 's eclectic music industry [11] His most recent album, Respect, earned a European release through a deal with Warner Music. Warner Music Group (WMG is the third-largest of the "big four" major record labels, the others being Sony BMG, EMI, and Universal [2] Dube toured internationally, sharing stages with artists such as Sinéad O'Connor, Peter Gabriel and Sting. Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (ʃɪˈneɪd oʊˈkɒnɚ (born 8 December 1966 is a Grammy Award winning Irish singer and songwriter Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950 in Chobham, Surrey, England) is an English Musician and Songwriter. STING ( S equence T o and with' IN' G raphics is a free Web-based suite of programs for a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between protein sequence [9] He appeared at the 1991 Reggae Sunsplash (uniquely that year, was invited back on stage for a 25 minute long encore) and the 2005 Live 8 event in Johannesburg. Reggae Sunsplash is a Reggae music festival that started in the 1970s in the northern part of Jamaica. On 2 July 2005, a Live 8 concert was held at Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa. [9]

In addition to performing music Dube was a sometime actor, appearing in the feature films Voice In The Dark, Getting Lucky and Lucky Strikes Back. In the Film industry, a feature film is a Film made for initial distribution in theaters and being the "main attraction" of the screening [12]

Death

On October 18, 2007, Lucky Dube was killed in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville shortly after dropping two of his seven children off at their uncle’s house. Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Police reports suggest he was shot dead by carjackers. Carjacking is a Crime of stealing a motor vehicle when the vehicle is occupied [5][4][3] Five men have been arrested in connection with the murder. [13] He is survived by his wife, Zanele, and his seven children. [6]

Discography

Mbaqanga

Afrikaans

Reggae

References

  1. ^ Fun Facts, luckydubemusic. Mbaqanga is a style of South African Music with Rural Zulu roots that continues to influence musicians worldwide today Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from 17th century Dutch and classified as Low Franconian Germanic, mainly spoken in Reggae is a Music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s com, Retrieved 19 October, 2007
  2. ^ a b c Five facts about reggae star Lucky Dube, Reuters, 19 October, 2007
  3. ^ a b c S.Africa reggae icon shot and killed - radio, Reuters, 19 October 2007. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
  4. ^ a b Hijackers gun down Lucky Dube, News24. com, 19 October 2007
  5. ^ a b S African reggae star shot dead, BBC News, 19 October 2007,
  6. ^ a b Car jacker kills reggae star, CNN, 19 October, 2007. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
  7. ^ a b Luvuyo Kakaza, Getting Lucky, The Mail & Guardian, 26 August, 1999.
  8. ^ a b c d Finding reggae, luckydubemusic. com, Retrieved 19 October, 2007
  9. ^ a b c d Basildon Petain, South African reggae star shot dead in front of his children, The Independent, 19 October, 2007.
  10. ^ Condolences pour in for Lucky Dube, SABC, 19 October, 2007.
  11. ^ a b c Discography, luckydubemusic. com, Retrieved 19 October, 2007
  12. ^ Who's Who: Lucky Dube, News24, Retrieved 10 October, 2007
  13. ^ "Five arrests over SA star's death", BBC News, October 21, 2007.  

External links

[1]* Official site

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