Remembering Lucky Dube With 5 Of His Best Songs

Watch and listen to 5 of the best songs of the late Reggae legend in South Africa Lucky Dube. Fact is, reggae was never a popular genre in SA but when Lucky Dube rose into fame over 25 years back people couldn’t help but fall in love with it and him.

Most of his songs were inspired by apartheid, he wrote music that was all about solidarity,love, unity and freedom. Each song he ever released had that deeper feel and meaning into it that was too surreal. Lucky Dube is 0ne of the few musical legends from SA whose name will carry on living even without his existence for generations to come.

Lucky Dube was born on a small farm near Ermelo in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). His mother, Sarah, considered his birth after a few unsuccessful pregnancy attempts so fortunate that she named him “Lucky”. Childhood was’t easy for him music became his greatest escape to all the suffering. Lucky recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa’s biggest-selling reggae artist.

This month marks 10 years of his death. On 18 October 2007 he was killed in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville shortly after dropping two of his seven children off at their uncle’s house. He was 43 years old when he died. The men involved in his murder were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Watch 5 out of many great songs Lucky Dube released in his time, in each song you’ll learn something no doubt. Let’s not forget the people who contributed so much in the music industry and opened the doors that were closed for others to worm their way in.

1.Remember Me