vital mix of reggae and African music from the King of Reggae Lucky...

hello friends greetings from Venezuela

Today I want to take you, to the African continent, through Reggae, as we all know this musical genre crossed borders, from there emerged one of the best exponents of the area.

He began his career in the mid-1980s, with a different style and lyrics of high social content.

This artist was born on August 3, 1964.

In his beginnings in the world of music he did not focus on reggae, but he sang the traditional Zulu mbaqanga style.
which is a rhythm of South African music with Zulu roots which is an African ethnic group of more than ten million individuals that mainly inhabit the province of KwaZulu-Natal, in South Africa.

although they are also found in small quantities in Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
This musical style has had great influence on musicians around the world today. This style originated in the early 1960s.

time later he changed to the genre of reggae since you consider this means more suitable communication to declare his dissatisfaction against the oppression of apartheid (the racial segregation system that exists in south africa) ..

The controversial history of his country makes him quickly immerse himself in the world of literature, he begins to familiarize himself with the Rastafari Movement and about the musical genre born in Jamaica called Reggae. As soon as Lucky discovered that he knew how to sing, he went to the meeting places of that black majority who were denied the right to vote.

Dube conceives the first reggae record recorded in South Africa: Rastas never die ("Dreadlocks never die"), was banned outright by the apartheid system.

Lucky Dube - Rastas Never Dies

Disregarding all the prohibitions imposed in his country regarding his music, he decided in 1985 to release his second album entitled: Think About The Children.

Think About The Children Lucky Dube

He then performs Oom Hansie known as Help My Krap, an Afrikaans / Zulu rap album that ends up being multi-platinum.

Lucky Dube - House of Exile

It had more than one million copies sold, a production that catapulted it to international stages in an extensive tour of almost two years that took it through Japan, Europe, the United States and the Caribbean, including a very memorable presentation in the Reggae Sunsplash.

On his return to South Africa he was listed as the best male vocalist of the year at the OKTV Awards and crown.

Lucky Dube-Victims

Lucky Dube - Slave - LIVE

Friends, I am delighted with the music of this Reggae artist who fought for peace in his country and various social causes. The essence of his music symbolizes the spirit of the liberation of the Black Man.

lucky in my opinion he had an unjust death but only God knows how to snatch us from this world.

Dube, 43, was killed at 8:30 pm on October 18, 2007 in the town of Rosettenville in an attempt to steal his vehicle.

as reported by police sources. Lucky had left two of his children at a relative's house, when a group of assailants opened the door of his Chrysler 300C and was shot.

Five men were arrested around his murder. Three of them were found guilty on March 31, 2009. Two of them tried to escape and were captured. They were sentenced to life imprisonment