Sunday, October 16, 2016

Celebrating the life of the most traveled talented SA musician lucky dube

Lucky Philip dube was born on the 03 august 1964,as a child lucky had a passion for music and he loved singing. lucky dube was  living in eastern Transvaal in the Mpumalanga province, lucky was raised by his mother only since his own father were separated with his mother before even he was born. lucky dube had to face different challenges since he had no father or someone who can guide him as a father.
The name lucky was given to him because his mother used to have pregnancy problems so he was given the name lucky because he brought happiness and joy in the family, lucky dube was living a happy life with his two siblings Patrick and Thandi who were living at their grandmothers home called sarah. Sarah describe lucky as someone who was always active and confident about everything that he do, honestly I was extremely happy to call lucky my grandson and even now I am proud and happy to call him my grandson.
Lucky dube at the early stage he had to man up and support his family since he was the head of the family, lucky then started going around and looking for a job so that he can start supporting his family. lucky finally get to work as a gardener and he is happy about the work since he will manage to support his family, things were really tough at that time since lucky wasn't earning enough money to support his family. lucky dube then decided that the best option is to go to school so that he can have a bright future, later on at the school lucky started joining choirs and singing more often at home and school.
Lucky then meet friends from different provinces to for his first skyway band the musical ensemble, then at the age of 18 at school lucky discovered the movement of Rastafari that's were lucky begin to join his cousin's band. lucky dube managed to record his first album at school under the name of super-soul, things were starting to look good for lucky so he was confident about his work all in all lucky dube managed to record over 22 albums in all different kind of languages and he began to be the most best selling reggae artist in South Africa.
unfortunately lucky dube was shot to death by some carjackers after lucky has dropped his two children to their uncle's home, those carjackers claims that they didn't see lucky they thought he was a Nigerian .five man were arrested for the death of lucky dube and were sentenced to life in prison.
Lucky dube was born on the 03 august 1964 and died on 18 October 2007 now as we speak we should be celebrating the 52 years of the legend, king lucky dube. Lucky Philip dube was taken so soon we as the nation praise and respect the man. he will always be our hero, our icon and our best biggest reggae artist of all the times. we as South Africans send love, respect and peace to you Lucky Philip Dube and you will always be remembered and we love you. celebrating the life of king Lucky Philip dube.                             

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