17/09/2023
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LUCKY DUBE.............
Lucky Dube is backed by a twelve-piece ensemble with three female singers, known as the "mothers of Soweto which never sleeps." The effect is similar to an American gospel choir with a reggae beat-- the backup singers providing a soprano chorus behind Dube as he leaps around the stage. He is a whirling dervish at his live performances, executing Zulu dances which involve high kicks in time to the music. All the while, he conveys his social commentaries on love, culture and politics in a calm, slightly ironic voice which slides up and down three octaves. He reminds some of Peter Tosh in his mid-range and evokes Smokey Robinson in his upper register. The instrumentation is African drums, electric organ, guitars, and bass; later the band added trumpet, trombone and saxophone. Several African styles, Dube's traditional Zulu and West African Soca (Soukous), combine with elements of jazz, blues, and roots reggae.
The success of Slave made Dube an international star, touring Europe and the United States in 1989. The same year he released two more albums, Together As One and Prisoner, each of which sold several million copies worldwide. Prisoner went double-platinum in South Africa in five days. The song "War and Crime" on Prisoner is a classic reggae commentary on the suffering of the innocent; typically, Dube attempts to reconcile the races with observations about the futility of placing blame: the black man blames the white man and the white man blames the black man. "Prisoner" observes that in the world of violence and distrust, we are all prisoners. Lucky speaks from the perspective of a schoolchild who is told that education is the key, but finds that more prisons are built than schools or hospitals.
After the release of Captured Live and House of Exile in 1991, he toured Japan and Australia. He was in demand as an opening act, playing with such Western celebritites as Peter Gabriel. In 1992, Dube was the first South African
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