Along with his two siblings, Thandi and Patrick, Dube spent much of his childhood with his grandmother, Sarah, while his mother relocated to work. His mother also considered his birth fortunate after a number of failed pregnancies.
His parents separated before his birth and he was raised by his mother who named him Lucky because he was born in poor health, and the doctors thought he would die. Lucky Dube was born Ermelo Dube (pronounced “doo bay”) on 3 August 1964. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007.
His two most popular albums, Prisoner and Slave, are among the most renowned and best-selling in South Africa’s history. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans. His song “Together as One” was the first song by a Black artist to be played on a whyte radio station in South Africa. Lucky Dube was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. 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.
