Image by PIRO4D on Pixabay · Pixabay License
OverviewAI-generated
Lucky Dube, born Lucky Philip Dube in Ermelo on 3 August 1964, was a South African singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor of Zulu descent who recorded reggae music. He sang and played guitar, was signed to the record label Rykodisc, and began his career in 1981.
He spoke English, and he died in Rosettenville on 18 October 2007, his death ruled a homicide.
Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Crossref, Firecrawl. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- South Africa
- Active from
- 1964
- Active to
- 2007
Discography
- Lengane Ngeyethu1981
- Ngikwethembe Na?1985
- Rastas Never Dies1985
- Think About The Children1986
- Slave1987
- Umadakeni1987
- Together as One1988
- Prisoner1989
- Captured Live1990
- Prisoner1991
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 74,906
- Total plays
- 1,123,943
Tags
Lucky Dube, ⋆ 3 Aug 1964 in Eastern Transvaal, South Africa; ₫ 18 Oct 2007 in Rosettenville, Johannesburg Gauteng (murdered), was South Africa's top reggae artist. He started with local popular music as mbaqanga. He switched to reggae in 1983. He was by then Rastafarian. He played roots reggae, but also love songs like 'I've Got You Babe'. His compilation album Serious Reggae Business 1996 entitled him "Best Selling African Recording Artist" at World Music Awards and "International Artist of the
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,794x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,172x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,498x
- Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response
· 2020 · cited 3,563x
- The enduring effects of abuse and related adverse experiences in childhood
· 2005 · cited 3,407x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Lucky Philip Dube , ( 1964-08-03 ) 3 August 1964, Ermelo , Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa
- Died
- 18 October 2007 (2007-10-18) (aged 43), Rosettenville , Johannesburg, South Africa
- Occupation
- Musician
- Spouse
- Thobekile Ngcobo ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 – 2007 )
- Genres
- Reggae , mbaqanga
- Instruments
- Guitar vocals keyboards
- Years active
- 1981–2007
- Labels
- Rykodisc , Gallo
- Formerly of
- The Skyway Band The Love Brothers
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Lucky Dube Legacy – The Lucky Dube Legacy
luckydubelegacy.com →Link to the official site · 8,570 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Ermelo
- Place of death
- Rosettenville
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- reggae
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Rykodisc
- Official website
- www.luckydubemusic.com
- Image
- Legendary Lucky Dube.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1964-08-03
- date of death
- 2007-10-18
- ethnic group
- Zulu people
- birth name
- Lucky Philip Dube
- manner of death
- homicide
- start of work period
- 1981-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
~8 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh; 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 audience. He recorded 22 albums in a 25-year period and was Africa's best-selling reggae artist of all time. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lucky Dube” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.