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Lucky Dube

ラッキー・デューベ　/　らっきー・でゅーべ

Singer from South Africa

August 3, 1964 – October 18, 2007　・　Ermelo, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Mpumalanga
singer
songwriter
guitarist

My Take

Lucky Dube is the kind of artist I keep coming back to. He took reggae, a sound born an ocean away, and bent it into a voice for South Africans living under apartheid, which is no small feat of adaptation. Winning Best Selling African Musician in 1996 confirms the reach, but what moves me is the moral weight inside the grooves. His killing in a 2007 robbery at just 43 still feels like an unfinished sentence. For me he stands as proof that protest can groove, and that the music outlives the violence done to the man who made it.

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.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Lucky Dube
Name (Japanese): ラッキー・デューベ
Reading: らっきー・でゅーべ
Born: August 3, 1964 – October 18, 2007
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Dragon
Origin: Ermelo, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: singer / songwriter / guitarist / actor / composer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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6. Links

Official sitehttps://luckydubelegacy.com/
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%99

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