“South Africa needs a lot of love at the moment…”
It is easy to react to Lucky Dube’s murder with outrage and grief. It is right to do so. I would also wish to celebrate the life of a friend. It is appropriate to do so in this blog, because Lucky Dube was an unheralded pioneer in the world of interactive digital content that pre-dated Web 2.0 by many years.
His 1996 10th-anniversary album, Serious Reggae Business, was the first South African CD to use the CD Extra format to include written and visual content on a music CD. Although CD Extra was also being used in 1996 to include MWeb’s new starter software on music CDs, Lucky’s album was the first to go fully multimedia with content that tied in with the music.
Gallo record company had commissioned Andre Venter, a pioneer in multimedia production, to handle the production, and myself, as a music journalist and long-time friend of Lucky’s, to conduct the interviews, and write the script and album liner notes. The interview turned out to be one of the most intensely personal I have yet conducted.
The songs on the album represented the greatest hits of his first 10 years as a reggae artist. He refused to call it a greatest-hits album because, he said, a greatest-hits compilation is for dead artists.
The liner notes combined my interview with an overview of the songs to give context to his music and life story. Today, it is my tribute to a complete human being.
Serious Reggae Business, liner notes by Arthur Goldstuck, Johannesburg, 1996, based on an interview at Downtown Studios, Johannesburg
This is the unedited version of the liner notes. Some of it was removed from the printed liner notes. Clips from the interview can be viewed on the CD itself.
Lucky Dube was born on August 3 1964, with almost nothing in his favour: alcohol led to the break-up of his family, he lived with a succession of uncles and aunts, and he grew up amid hunger and poverty. More than three decades later, he is the most successful recording artist in Africa, but he has never forgotten his origins. In fact, it is his understanding of suffering that enables him to create the songs that have the power to move the world.
Serious Reggae Business marks the 10th anniversary of Lucky’s career as a reggae artist, and a year in which he was named the world’s best-selling African recording artist at the World Music Awards. The album also sends a signal to the world that Lucky Dube does not want to rest on his laurels, but rather wants to move forward by adding new influences and new technologies to his music. So, while this is largely a compilation album, it is not a greatest-hits album.
“Greatest hits are done when people are dead or when they cannot make music any more, when they don’t have any more ideas,” says Lucky. “This is not the end of everything — there’s still more to come.” He adds, with typical modestly: “Maybe I’m still going to have some hits in the future.”
Mr DJ
Although Mr DJ sounds like a classic example of kind of songs many artists produce to get radio airplay, it was part of Lucky’s live act for many years before he recorded it. “This is how we open our show; it was going to be an intro to the album as if we are in a live show. We were not necessarily asking DJs that they must play this song.”
Feel Irie
Lucky is best known for his stirring reggae anthems, but many of his songs explore the personal demons — in reality often senseless fears — that haunt many people and have as much impact on their lives as do the political events around them.
“The idea behind my music is I write the music about people’s fears, people’s joys, people’s dreams and everything. Feel Irie talks more about people’s fears and my fears as well, because it says there that no man can hide from his fears. Since they’re part of him, they’ll always know where to find him.”
Together as One
This is the song that Lucky acknowledges broke the “political virginity” of the state-run South African Broadcasting Corporation. The title track includes the line: “Too many people hate apartheid, why do you like it”. The first instincts at the SABC were to ban the album, but it was persuaded to reconsider its decision, and an anti-apartheid song received airplay for the first time.
“Together As One was a difficult one. Dave Segal was there and Richard Siluma was there, and when I mentioned the word apartheid — because they didn’t know the song before we did it here so they just heard me singing in the song, “Too many people hate apartheid” — they immediately stopped the tape and they said you can’t say that, you can’t say apartheid. That was what was happening at that time; you couldn’t mention that word in a song, and so we stopped and talked for a while. But eventually we thought, yes, this is what I wanted to say and this is it.
“That was at a time when South Africa was changing, and we did not have as much trouble as we expected. The SABC wanted books and things, wanting to know where I come from, how I think, and things like that, just checking me out basically. And after that they played the song.”
Slave
Lucky’s third reggae album, Slave, was one of the great success stories of South African music, going triple gold in three months, and having sold more than half-a-million copies to date. Although the theme of Slave is the impact that alcohol has on people’s lives, the refrain “I’m just a slave, a legal slave” caught the imagination of the music-buying public.
“I’ve seen a lot of families breaking up because of drinking; I’m a victim of that. So it was just my way of trying to warn people against it, but then people read into songs, which is why maybe we write songs for people and not for ourselves. So they read that ‘legal slave’ part into the song, which I didn’t have a problem with because a song is meant for the people. That is cool, I’m happy with it, because it means that they are listening to the song, they are not just dancing to the song.”
Steel Bars
Steel Bars always plays two roles in Lucky Dube’s live show: to introduce the next song, Prisoner, but also to give the backing vocalists a chance to shine.
“I allow everyone to have some sort of a contribution to the whole show. When doing shows everyone must contribute something to make it a success. I’m not saying it’s a Lucky Dube thing so it’s only Lucky Dube that’s got to do things here, but everybody can do what they want to make the show work better.
“As long as it’s all working to make the show better and not working against the show. If I believe it’s good, then we can do it to make the show better. That’s the reason why the girls have got their intro where they sing without me. That helps them as well to improve and know they mean something to the band.”
Prisoner
If Slave changed Lucky’s life, Prisoner changed the South African recording industry. In five days, the album sold no less than 100 000 copies, and another 120 000 in the next three weeks. Ironically, in the week of its release, eight of South Africa’s longest-serving political prisoners were released from jail, a major step in South Africa’s slow road to democracy. As so many times before, Lucky had unintentionally tapped into the national spirit of freedom hungry South Africans. Yet, he has never regarded his songs as political messages.
“They are all dealing with true and real-life experiences in our day-to-day lives. That’s what they deal with: social issues, even though some people see them as political things.”
Reggae Strong for Peace
In 1991, with South Africa in the grips of political violence, the country’s top reggae acts, led by Lucky Dube, decided to play for peace. The result was the Reggae Strong for Peace concert on May 2 1991, with 14 acts performing at an all-day festival, and coming together at the end to perform a theme song written by Lucky.
“It was kind of difficult to write a song like that which was going to be sung by a lot of different people. I don’t just write a song from nowhere; I mean there’s got to be something that triggers it off. That’s maybe why I have a problem writing a song for some other guy, because I write a song about something that has happened to me or to someone next to me, something that I know about, something that I’ve seen, something that I’ve experienced.
“With the Reggae Strong for Peace song, that was like maybe all my experiences in life and so I had to take it and give my experiences to other people to sing. It was a difficult one, but it was cool.”
(Mid-album comments)
We’ve reached that time of the album where, just as in his live shows, Lucky has slowed down the tempo and introduced a mellow atmosphere. This is the time when he shows off his astonishing vocal range — no less than four octaves, which would almost qualify him as an opera singer — as well as the depth of his musical skills. We listen to him slip easily from a reggae backbeat into the quiet piano moments of his ballads and love songs.
“The music must go with the message. Even though I’m a reggae singer, it doesn’t mean that I understand or write only reggae and nothing else. I do write other forms of music, and so thought if I did Remember Me or My Son I’m Sorry in a very groovy type of thing, maybe the message wouldn’t go to the people as it did in a ballad. It’s slow and it’s an easy-listening type of thing, so people can listen to it very easily and get the message. The music goes with the lyrics. It’s got to balance.”
My Son I’m Sorry
A few months before he put together this album, Lucky was reunited with his son, whom he had barely seen in 10 years. His former wife had refused to let him see the boy, but as strenuously as Lucky worked to push his career to new heights, so hard did he work at trying to earn the love of his son. One of the results was this song:
“I was maybe, what, about 21 or 22. I had a son at that time but we had problems between me and the mother, and so eventually I was not allowed even to go near this guy and we would see each other, like, from a distance. I didn’t want to stay away, because I have experienced that, being without a father. I didn’t want him to be without me. But the only way I thought I could talk to him in a way was through my song. I was trying to reach this guy and say, ‘I’m sorry, I wish you could understand, I wish I could talk to you, I wish I could tell you what happened.’”
Remember Me
Lucky never knew his own father, but in the same way he reached forward to make contact with his son, he reached back to “talk” to his father — as well as to other children in his situation — in yet another intensely personal song.
“My music is about me, my music is me. It talks about my fears, my joys and everything. Remember Me talks about my father. I don’t know him, I’ve never seen him, maybe I saw him for two or three seconds one year, I can’t remember, but I basically don’t know him. I wrote that song not necessarily for me, but for all the children that would be in the same situation as me, because I know there are a lot of children out there who don’t know their fathers, who have never seen their fathers.”
I Want to Know What Love Is
This is a song that the whole world came to know through the work of other artists, but Lucky has breathed new life into it with his unique vocal treatment. But why this song? How does it fit into Lucky’s reggae showcase?
“I’ve always liked Foreigner. I’ve been listening to their music for a long time, and I think it was last year when we started doing I Want to Know What Love Is, but I wasn’t doing the whole song. Live on stage I would just do the chorus, but I would fuse the chorus with Together as One. The band loved it, and people loved it, and everybody was just singing along, which was a great thing, because it’s also important that people should sing these songs so that they do get the message.
“South Africa needs a lot of love at the moment, and so we put that song in there just to make people aware that there is something we need here that we don’t have — we need love, and there are a lot of question marks as to what love is.”
House of Exile
On the House of Exile album, Lucky once again tapped into the national mood of the time as political prisoners were emerging from the jails and South Africa’s exiles began returning home. But there was one “exile” in particular who inspired the song.
“We all have suffered as black people or whatever, oppressed and all that, but no one has suffered like Nelson Mandela. Even though we were oppressed and everything was happening to us, at the end of the day we would all go back home to our children, wives, and everything, all our loved ones there. But he did not have that. He was just locked up there somewhere.
“It doesn’t matter whether you are poor or suffering or whatever, as long as you’ve got people around you that love you, people that care for you, it’s OK, but he didn’t have that. He was in that house of exile. And as the song says, in the night we dream of Romeo and Juliet; all he dreams about is the freedom of the nation.
Peace Perfect Peace
The Reggae Strong for Peace concert did not only mark Lucky’s first attempt to write a song for a large group of acts, but also one of the few occasions on which he performed other artists’ songs. Once again, though, it was the right song at the right time.
“It was also at the time when South Africa needed peace and the people needed to hear peace. We did Peace Perfect Peace. It’s a Toots Hibbert song, but I thought it’s a song that’s got the right message, and that was a message people wanted to hear at that time. We have resurrected the song and put it on this album because people still need that.
“We still need to maybe even educate people about peace, because we talk about it, politicians sign peace treaties which mean nothing to the people — it’s just something between the politicians, but they don’t actually talk to the people about peace, they don’t teach people about peace. I don’t think signing a treaty means anything to a guy in the street. So I think it’s every musician’s duty to try to teach people or educate people about peace.”
Victims
In 1993, Lucky captured the bitterness of a nation at war with itself on his album Victims. Lines such as “still licking wounds from brutality, still licking wounds from humiliation” were among the most heartfelt and angry Lucky had written. Critics described it as a “peace cry”. But when it was suggested Lucky had become a politician, he rejected the idea out of hand.
“I don’t know much about politics, you know, but I know about truth. I wanted to be a politician myself some time, but I just didn’t know much about corruption. Maybe that’s why I’m a musician, because I can just do what I do and just tell the truth. But if you tell the truth, they say you’re a politician.”
Nevertheless, the album quickly entered the Billboard world music charts, and set the stage for his most extensive world tour yet and the first documentary video on his life, The Man, The Music.
I’ve Got You Babe
Sometimes, Lucky Dube does sing about the simpler things in life, like love and happiness. “That’s what maybe keeps the world going,” he quips. “Man and woman.” He has no concern that people might confuse the song with an earlier hit by a 1960s duo, pointing out that “there’s a song I know that was written in 1923, called I Love You“.
It’s Not Easy
In 1992, Peter Gabriel invited Lucky to participate in the Real World Recording Week and joined him on stage at the 10th-anniversary Womad Festival. They performed a duet on It’s Not Easy, beginning a relationship that would see Lucky join Gabriel on the Womad world tour and share stages with a range of artists ranging from folk musicians to rock stars. But that song did not come easy.
“That is me that the song is talking about, but at the same time it’s talking about a helluva lot of people out there who have also been in the same situation as I have been in the song. We all have these dreams in life, but sometimes they never come true, you know. Sometimes they just don’t become what you thought they would be and that was my situation.”
Different Colours One People
Lucky detests racism so much, he even rejects tribal identities that people try to use to categorise him, saying: “I am just a human being. People would ask me if I’m a Zulu or a Swazi or whatever. I’m not that. God did not make Swazis, God did not make Xhosas or Zulus; God made people.” It was inevitable that he would keep putting that ideal into songs.
“I was touring Australia. They had a human rights association, and they had a campaign that they were doing there. It was called Different Colours One People, trying to get people in Australia together and just showing their different cultures and all the differences that they have there. I liked that title because it was exactly the same here in South Africa and that’s what inspired the song.”
Natural Man
Natural Man is also an intro to the next song on the album, but it does say something about the way Lucky sees himself. He is one of the most clean-living artists in reggae, and rejects even ganja, insisting that there is no real spiritual basis to its use in Rastafarianism.
“My grandfather used to smoke ganja, but not as a spiritual thing, not as a reggae or Rasta thing. He didn’t know anything about Rasta or reggae. The only reason he was smoking ganja was because at that time the only smokable thing was this ganja, before white people came with cigarettes and cigars and whatever smokable things we have today.
“That’s not to say it had some healing power or spiritual power to it. It was just a herb that people got freely and they started smoking that. It’s something that started in Africa, totally innocently, not as a Rasta or a reggae thing.”
Back to My Roots
In reggae language, getting back to your roots usually means getting back to Mother Africa, but for Lucky it has an entirely different meaning. After all, he is already deeply grounded in his African roots.
“Reggae music is what I originally wanted to do before I started doing mbaqanga music, but at that time I could not get a contract from a record company as a reggae singer, because reggae was not happening in South Africa. I had to start as an mbaqanga singer and then move on.
“So when I recorded reggae music for the first time, I was saying yes, I’m back to what I originally wanted to do, I’m back to my roots. I’m reggae. I’m reggae. There’s a song I wrote some years ago saying the bed I sleep on is a reggae bed, so even though I do other projects on the side, I’ll always be reggae.”
At this stage what is an enemy saying? In less than 15 years of freedom the man who fought for our rights during apartheid regime is fallen! Killed by who? By the same black skin he fought for! Am sorry at this moment am very disturbed! I don’t know if it is part of our freedom to kill; but to my understanding freedom is to live, learn, grow, to become better, to heal within, to know and understanding “What love is” to LIVE “Together as One” not with crime and corruption”. Lucky’s soul is looking back and saying yeah right, was it worth fighting for? My own people – the one I trusted took away my life my soul, from my family, loved ones, my colleagues, my employees, my SA”. Why SA Why? Why are we becoming a disgrace to the world? Is n’t time to embrace each other? Love each other, console each other? help one another? I will repeat it again…Lucky DID NOT DESERVE TO DIE! He was a good man, non drinker, non- smoker, a man of God, humble. He was a man of good character, good soul, a giver, a friend (to all), he was a man of his word. Down to earth! How many men like that in SA VERY FEW! He was our pride, our inspiration, our mentor… now he is gone! for what? for a car? Is his life or any life worth that?…No! Come on guys let us do better than this! I am sick and tired of always worried Oh my God who is next? Crime is getting out of hand in our country. We need to work together hand in hand to make our “Mzantsi” a better place. How many souls have been laid to rest for the same reason…crime? And can we proudly say for sure we are ready for 2010? Let us start with the first things first! People’s lives matter most!
To Lucky’s mom I can say ” mama you are a Shero” They say a child is his’her mother’s mirror – through Lucky we saw who you are and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts”. Mzi wakwa Dube anilahlekelwanga nodwa sonke siyakhala sidandathekile – Thuthuzelekani”.
To the nation “Let us stand up and fight this scourge of greed, envy, jealousy, bitterness” It is a bunch of people who need light and redirection…we have come so far…our history have shared enough blood now let’s share wisdom knowledge and human kindness, compassion and love… peace be with you…!
thanks for this site i am feeling little better cause i get to greive.dont no when and if the pain will ever end.i listen to at least one his songs daily and more now cause it really helps me alot cause thats how i choose to remeber him.alive singing delivering his message to the world.and a positive message to that.LUCKY made me love and appreciate reggae and i mean real reggae which is music with a message.what make this worse is what and who he fight for has taken his life treating him in his last moments like an animal.i have seen LUCKY perform live once (which i risked my job for)and it was spectacular it is the best live concert i have ever been to it is over 3 years and i remember it and talk about it like it was yesterday.i feel like it is my brother my mother bore that has passed.i never greived like this.it is hard.i am wondering how i will make it thru.are those holagons aware what they have done to the world?are they aware what they have done to africa?well let me tell them they have DESTROY all the good there is or was.I PERSONALLY FEEL IT WAS DELIBERATELY DONE.NOT FOR ANY CAR.holagons y LUCKY y u had to do him like that what have he done to you?did his car value more than him?well let me answer his life was way more valuable than a car more than any materal thing in this world.
to africa i am disappointed in you u have let me down.y wait until now to celebrate and talk good of LUCKY?y only now u choose to see and say all the good of him when he is way gone?y u didnot give him the praises and flowers while he was alive?y didnt u protect him and other africans?y dont u tell the truth as to y LUCKY is really dead?instead of killing him for bringing the suffering that going on in africa to the world,u should have joined with him and make africa a better place make it b the envy of the world.
dear GOD almighty thanks for letting the LUCKY star to shine thru the world that all of us could have a peice of him in or heart.to mommy DUBE thanks for the wonderful job u have done.i no cause look at what a wonderful person he turned out to b i look at him and see ur work thru him and i greive with u.to his dad even though u a bum thanks for doing ur part in giving us this wonderful LUCKY star.to his children please let daddy (LUCKY)shine thru u.please dont let him down.to his wife just hold on and dont forget him keep him close to ur heart.he will always b with u.dont give up now cause he wouldnt want u to.to the whole world who is greiving with me lets keep him more alive now thru his music.
TO THE HOLOGANS I SAY MAY U ROT IN HELL.
LUCKY NOT HERE IN BODY BUT IN SPIRIT.LOVE U ALWAYS THANKS FOR ALL U HAVE GIVEN TO US.(FROM THE CARIBBEAN PPL)
A MAN REALLY HAVE NO HONOR IN HIS CONTRY.
“jiah”- so i feel…had that same pain 14 years ago when my mother died, and i died with her..now i died with lucky..the world is only pain and rivers of tears cannot wash it away. i have completely lost my faith, that life on earth could change one time to good. forgive me God my negative thoughts, i’m helpless but i believe in you and in zion. give me the strength back to believe, that we’ll win the fight. one the most important things lucky teached me is to live without hate, thank you, wise and friendly soul, you freed me from a dangerous poison. thank you for everything you’ve given to me, love you eternally, but how can i survive this pain…
last night 8 o’clock i went to meditate inside the dark forrest, mp3 player on my ears. listening to “you stand alone” and “man in the city” it was holy there, the trees gave me some peace, one tree told me to come to him and take him in my arms, so i did and i felt, he embraised me also. thank you jah for your miracles..
..would like to share my thoughts about lucky with all you lovely people, maybe we can build contacts and help each others to go on..i can be found at myspace.com/reggaemum
Luck am sorry,all of trinidad and tobago west indies May ALLAH bless and keep your family in good health stay.and stay strong SOUTH AFRICA.
family of lucky dube, be strong it’s time we Stop killing our people sencessly from Trinidad W.I
It’s hard to believe that such a great talent – philosopher, freedom fighter, prophet and musician – has departed this earth. And to think that the very thing you preached about is what attacked and killed you. We are all victims. Your inspirational music, which always gives me chills and a lot to think about, will always be with us. Thank you for sharing your gift with the world. I hope and pray that you have received rest in the bosom of the Lord and that you will receive a reward for your struggles and commitment to the well being of your fellow man. Peace!!!
Oh no!!!! What a sad end to a rising star. I saw Lucky in Montreal years ago and personally charted with him and his crew. Lucky I enjoyed talking to you about SA. I miss you so much. Your music is so uplifting. We will miss you so much. May your family find strength during this difficult period.
Rest In Peace Lucky. I love you my brother. Flora- from Uganda, Currently residing in BALTIMORE,USA
Lucky Dube’s passage in this earth represents a book of peace. Your killers will earn nothing in this earth but hell. R I P my borther. You are an internationalist.
Jean Jacob Jeudy, Haitian Journalist
today is the day your body goes down into the earth. here where i live, the sky is perfect blue, sun is shining, the air is cold. you don’t need our prayers, you have reached the highest high, blessed one! prayers go out from my weeping heard to your family, in my mind i’m standing at your grave with them together. may jah help them and dry their tears one day! praise to god, he created your wonderful soul, living eternally in our heards!
Lucky,Lucky,words are failing me.
My son Neo, wants to know why dad can’t sing “DING DING, I LICK-LICK-BOMB”, no more. How can I.
Yours was the only song he, at two years could ably
sing.
You were our joy and our every thing.
We’ll never forget you, Majesty, rest in peace.
I was at the live concert in Namibia for his “Soul Taker” album debut in 2002. A week before his death i had written to “Mail n Guardian” (A letter directed to His Excellency Thabo Mbeki) about crime in South Africa.I never saw it published. Lucky Dube has been my star since 1988 when i first listened to his songs. It was in cassette form those days. It was green in color. I think it was Prisoner.He is my best Reggae artist and reminds me of Peter Tosh.How long will such murders happen in South Africa? It begs for answers.May the almighty rest his body in peace.We are in moaning together with family.I feel your pain.God will take care of you.
It is just difficult to believe it still that Lucky Dube will nolonger be physically available.God gave us but God has taken away.The gunmen stands condemned in the eyes of God.
Teacher, Rest in Peace till we meet in heaven.
I have two very importante wishes in life before i died One is to shake hands with Mandela the only great african leader and the other to see Lucky performe live.I guess the later was not meant to be what a shame. I hear the news from an American friend who is also a fan I could’nt believe it i wish he had never told me. That was how deeply sadened i was. I was just saying to myself Dube can’t die Not now.I remember in a music introductory class I played a song by Dube and the teacher asked me why I like him. I just said I listen to other music for mere entertainment i listen to Dube to think about every day life. His music is an inspiration to me. No matter how bad I’m feeling Playing Lucky’s music has the power to erase that sadness. To his family and fans around the world my deepest condolences. We have lost a great man. A men among man, A true son of Africa. may his soul rest in peace. may he be emulated.
I urge South African cops to do what ever they can to find those responsible for this barbaric crime. “Rasta never dies”.
Ibrahim Oumarou USA
high respected lucky dube, you have been my guiding light for so many years, and your words are planted in my heard for all my life.. you are the most precious pearl i found on earth and my heard is breaking i will never see you again. GOD, why do you give us so much pain…we are so weak..we are longing for peace…we are crying…help us all!!
Why? Why?? Why??? Buddy Lucky Dube. I saw you at 1st Ave. nite club in Minneapolis Minnesota in August, we laughed, hugged and danced today I am crying for you. They took you away from your young children and fan base accross the globe. Where cometh my joy who is gonna wipe my tears. Oh Lucky Dube please come back to me. Will forever miss you. Jah rest.
akpan
I am a Zambian studying in the United States. The death of Lucy Dube has affected me in many ways.Lucky Dube was my role model, hero, and inspiration. I have almost every reggae (English) album and I listen to his songs everyday. He has died , but his music still remains the same. I am a reggae lover and Dube’s music always come number one. I have respect for his music and I wish I had time to meet him when he was alive. I will remember Lucky Dube for ever. His last album called Respect is very informative and the track Respect tells a lot. Touch Your Dreams- tells me more about my life and reminds me who Dube was.
May his soul rest in everlasting peace.
As a reggae artist myself pursuing the same goals, Lucky’s death is really a great lost. Reggae is a language of love and we must fight against the forces that attempt to destroy it knowingly or unknowingly.
R.I.P My Brother…
lala ngoxolo mntana kwa dube. umsebenzi wakho emhlabeni uqhityiwe sakuhlala sikukhumbula ngomculo wakho! shlobo ( ireland)
I am originally from Nigeria. I accidentally found started listening to Lucky Dubes when my wife was listening to his “serious reggae business” I fell in love with his music. I started buying all his music. I still could not get enough. I remember when respect came out. I asked people who when heading to Nigeria to get me a copy, because it was not available here in America yet. This year, he came to our town in Dallas Tx. My wife being pregnant with our first child. We decided we would see him “next year” When I think about this moment tears roll down my eyes. I never got to see this man in person who’s music helped me get through those difficult days and times. Let us all cherish what we have. Tomorrow is never promised. Love !
Who killed lucky dube?
What did he do?
Why?
What’s the world going to do about his killing?
The whole world is crying, for the lost of this man. Can the killer show himself?
Can we stop corruption in africa?
I am still in shock at the untimely death of this great son of Africa! May his soul rest in eternal peace. ‘Nobody can stop reggae’!
Well, after months since Lucky’s dead, it is still hard to believe this happened. Everytime I think of it I pray in silence for him.
I’m from Puerto Rico and I have read almost every post here and even though I’m still mourning his dead… reading your comments makes me feel much better. It shows the world the real power of Reggae music and the messages.
There is one of the comments here that touched me hard.. A father that teached one of Lucky’s song to his two years old son… the first song he could sing at this age… it makes you think. It makes you proud.
So long my friend… I still remember the first time I heard you.. I’ll always will. I promise.
Jah bless you and your family soldier!!!!
Like the pheonix from the ashes the spirit will rise from Ciceron to Soweto!
Way too long for someone to read!
My advice to u is to break it up into sections!
thankyou-luv wats it to ya
U really labored in educating the world in all your sonorous songs without relinguishing. Lucky u were sagacious in ur teachings just like Job Paul Kafeero. may u rest in peace since ur daugther is gigantically spreading the philosophy of Raggae music
These The Young Turks are sometimes spot on their political comments. They endure as a informatave perspective. I pray they will continue be corageous enough to tell it like it is and counter the GOP sponsored Fox Network propaganda.
Sad to come back after 4 years… RIP Lucky. Sing a song for us whenever you can. Look after us always.