As a child Dube worked as a gardener but, as he matured, realizing that he wasn't earning enough to feed his family, he began to attend school. Dube's roots reggae brought African people to the table in terms of conversation about the black diaspora by mimicking Caribbean artists' assertions of African authenticity or racial utopia. Archived from the original on 11 September Retrieved 20 October It achieved platinum sales status and established Dube as a popular reggae artist in South Africa, in addition to attracting attention outside his homeland. Through taking Jamaican roots music back to its roots, he recontextualized the oppression and political struggles that reggae seeps itself in, bringing the basis of the diaspora back in conversation with the diaspora at large to allow for a more pan-African form of cultural expression. 
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At the age of 18 Dube joined his cousin's band, The Love Brothers dubbe, playing Zulu pop music known as mbaqanga whilst funding his lifestyle by working for Hole and Cooke as a security guard at the car auctions in Midrand.
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What Lucky Dube's music did was "[present] a praxis of cross-culturality and visionary possibility" [22] that the diaspora at large tends to erase. As a child Dube worked as a gardener ngeyetuu, as he matured, realizing that he wasn't earning enough to feed his family, he began to attend school.
It achieved platinum sales status and established Dube as a popular reggae artist in South Africa, in addition to attracting attention outside his homeland. On 18 OctoberLucky Dube was killed by robbers at a Johannesburg township called KwaThema shortly after dropping two of his seven children off at their uncle's house.
There he joined a choir and with some friends, formed his first musical ensemble, called The Skyway Band.
The album features his biggest hits exclusive performances and 3 previously unreleased tracks. Retrieved from " https: Though Dube was still at school, the band recorded material in Johannesburg during his school holidays. His album Trinity was the first release on Tabu Records after Motown's acquisition lengabe the label. Ngikwethembe Na has yet to be luckky. Police reports suggest he was shot dead by carjackers who did not recognize him and believed that he was Nigerian.
Keen luc,y suppress anti-apartheid activism, the apartheid regime banned the album inbecause of its critical lyrics, for instance in the song "War and Crime".
This page was last edited on 22 Septemberat Lucky Dube is considered to be especially remarkable as a Dub Artist due to his lack of a diasporic cultural base.
In a interview, he described his grandmother as "his greatest love" who "multiplied many things to bring up this responsible individual that I am today. His parents separated before his birth and he was raised by his mother duge named him Lucky because she considered his birth fortunate after a number of failed pregnancies.
He decided to try the new musical genre and inreleased the mini album Rastas Never Die. Dube's roots reggae brought African people to the table in terms of conversation about the black diaspora by mimicking Caribbean artists' assertions of African authenticity or racial utopia.
The second album was released soon afterwards, and this time Dube wrote some of the lenganne in addition to singing. He recorded 22 albums in ZuluEnglish and Afrikaans in a year period and was South Africa's biggest-selling reggae artist.
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Dube catalyzed roots reggae's appearance as a popular form of protest song. On 21 OctoberRykodisc released a compilation album entitled Retrospectivewhich featured many of Dube's ngwyethu influential songs as well as previously unreleased tracks in the United States.
Five of the six albums have been retrieved. Retrieved 3 January By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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Drawing inspiration from Jimmy Cliff [9] and Peter Tosh ngeyethi, [7] he felt the socio-political messages associated with Jamaican reggae were relevant to a South African audience in an institutionally racist society. He was revolutionary in so far as he introduced a competing version to Reggae's constant tendency of romanticizing the utopian homeland of Africa.
The record sold poorly — around units — in comparison to the 30, units his mbaqanga records would sell. All subsequent albums were recorded as Lucky Dube. Through taking Jamaican roots music back to its roots, he recontextualized the oppression and political struggles that reggae seeps itself in, bringing the basis of the diaspora back in conversation with the diaspora at large to allow for a more pan-African form of cultural expression.
Retrieved 2 October It was around this same time when he began to learn English.
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