He was partly raised by his granny because as a single mom, his mother was working a lot as well. He once worked as a gardener or as a library assistant. ![]() Like many other kids in Africa, Lucky often had to work and help support his family instead of going to school. Thankful about his birth, his mother named him like that after having lost a baby. Lucky Dube was born on 3rd August 1964 on a small farm in Ermelo, in South Africa. Every kid knows his name and music there! In Ghana, I could hear his music in every drinking spot, every taxi and on every radio station. When carjackers murdered him in 2007, it was amazing to witness how the whole of Africa was mourning him. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English, and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest-selling reggae artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian.
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