It's Not Easy - Music

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 Year" At The Ghana Music Awards. He Didn't Agree With Roots Reggae's Romanticizing Of The Utopian Homeland Africa. Stating That For Many Africans America And Europe Is Utopia As Is The Song 'The Other Side'. - - - Lucky Dube Born August 3 1964 Died October 18 2007 Was A Reggae Musician From Johannesburg South Africa. He Was Named Lucky Because When He Was Born In Poor Health And The Doctors Thought He Would Die. But He Survived So Was Named Lucky. In His Youth Lucky Lived With Many Different Family Members Singing In Bars And In Church. He Eventually Formed A Band With Some Friends But They Could Not Afford To Purchase Instruments. Eventually Lucky Wrote A Play Which He And His Bandmates Performed Earning Enough Money To Buy A Guitar. Their Band Was Then Called Skyway And They Played In The Mbaqanga Style. Two Years After Skyway's Formation Lucky Joined Richard Siluma's Love Brothers. He Stayed With Them For Several Years Before Switching To Reggae In The Early 1980s. His First Major Success In That Field Came At The Influential Sunsplash Festival In Jamaica. Lucky's "Together As One" Was The First Song By A Black Artist To Be Played On A White Radio Station In South Africa. His Two Most Popular Albums Prisoner And Slave Are Among The Most Renowned And Best-Selling In South Africa's History. One Of Lucky's Favourite Singers Was The Late Peter Tosh. On The 18th Of October 2007 Lucky Was Shot Dead In An Attempted Car Jacking In Johannesburg South Africa. Discography Rastas Never Dies Think About The Children The Above Two Available On 2on1 - Lucky Dube Rastas Never Dies/Think About The Children 2000 Slave 1989 Prisoner 1990 Together As One 1992 House Of Exile 1992 Captured Live 1993 Victims 1993 Trinity 1995 Serious Reggae Business 1996 Taxman 1997 The Way It Is 1999 The Rough Guide To Lucky Dube 2001 Soul Taker 2001 The Other Side 2005 Respect 2006 read less