‘Different Colors – One People’ from Victims (1993) Some of his most popular tracks include the following: This globally acclaimed reggae star has 22 albums in Zulu, English, and Afrikaans to his credit, and that too in a period of 25 years.

In 1984, he was featured in the film ‘Getting Lucky’ and an album was released including the soundtrack from the film. He later founded The Sky Way Band while he was in high school, which turned out to be a massive hit with their album ‘Bazolelen’ released in 1983. Lucky Dube started his musical career performing the local “mbaqanga” form of Zulu music and went on to join the choir. Belonging to a non-affluent Zulu family in a racially divided South Africa led him to develop a unique point of view that was reflected in his music.īorn in Ermelo, South Africa, in 1964, the singer was named ‘Lucky’ because his mother considered his birth a miracle.

Lucky Philip Dube, possibly one of the finest South African reggae musicians and Rastafarian the world has ever seen had capsulized a revolutionary epoch of idealistic youths who longed for an Africa that would have been freed of the shackles of its foreign influence.