Lucky Dube was born in Ermelo, Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), on 3 August 1964. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007.
He recorded 22 albums in a 25-year period and was Africa's best-selling reggae artist of all time. In his lyrics, Dube discussed issues affecting South Africans and Africans in general to a global audience.
His record sales across the world earned him the Best Selling African Musician prize at the 1996 World Music Awards. Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian.
