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AFRICAN VIP ARTIST SERIES
REMEMBERING
LUCKY DUBE
LUCKY DUBE LIVE at Urban Music Festival in Ottawa 2002
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Lucky Dube performed live in Ottawa at the Urban Music Festival in 2002... he and his band was one of the most energetic live shows that I have ever seen! He performed non-stop for over 3,000 fans.
Lucky Dube also performed at FELA KUTI "Felabration" event last year at Femi Kuti's new Afrikan Shrine in Lagos, Nigeria.
What a senseless killing and a sad loss of a great talent and wonderful individual!
SAfrican reggae star shot in carjacking
By MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 19, 3:05 PM ET
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Lucky Dube, a reggae star who launched his career with criticism of the former apartheid government, was shot to death in an apparent carjacking attempt as he was dropping off his children, police and his Web site said Friday.
The 43-year-old singer was shot Thursday night after two men approached his car in Johannesburg's southern Rosettenville suburb, police spokesman Eugene Opperman said.
"His son was already out of the car. When he saw what was happening, he ran to ask for help," police Capt. Cheryl Engelbrecht said.
The Star newspaper in South Africa said Dube was shot after dropping off his 16-year-old son and 15-year-old daughter at the gate of his brother's house. The newspaper, quoting an unidentified witness, said the wounded musician drove away and hit a car, lost control and crashed into a tree.
Opperman said police were searching for three suspects, although only two men approached the car. "At this time all indications are that it is a hijacking that went wrong," he said.
Dube, one of South Africa's best-known singers, recorded more than 20 albums in a career spanning more than two decades. His albums — many of which focused on South Africa's former apartheid government — were sung in Zulu, English and Afrikaans.
His seminal song "Come Together as One" was his vision for unity in the new South Africa.
President Thabo Mbeki praised him as "an outstanding South African" and said the nation needed to "act together as a people to confront this terrible scourge of crime."
South Africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world, recording an average of 50 murders each day. U.N. crime statistics say one in three Johannesburg residents has been robbed. Rapes and assaults also are common.
Ivor J. Haarburger, head of Dube's recording company, Gallo Music Group, said he was deeply saddened by the loss.
"Lucky was not just an extraordinary artist, he was a personal friend," he was quoted as saying on Dube's Web site. "It's so sad to lose such a great friend and so tragically. Why?"
Dube switched from a traditional South African musical style to reggae in the 1980s to express his anger against South Africa's former racist white-minority regime.
Through his music, Dube "played a pivotal role in sensitizing the world about the hardships faced by oppressed people in South Africa at the height of apartheid," the governing African National Congress party said in a statement.
His songs were social commentary on issues that ranged from dealing with alcoholism — "I am a Liquor Slave" — to social anthems like "Prisoner," which highlighted the many injustices of apartheid. His first album, "Rastas Never Die," was a message for peace and unity.
He toured all over the world, sharing the stage with such artists as Michael Jackson, Ziggy Marley, Celine Dion, Sinead O'Connor and Sting.
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The South African reggae musician, Lucky Dube, has been shot dead in front of his children in Johannesburg during an attempted car hijacking.
He had been dropping his teenage son and daughter off in the suburb of Rosettenville on Thursday evening.
Police say they were already out of the car when three shots were fired through a car window killing their father. Alongside Bob Marley, he was thought of as one of the great reggae artists - singing about social problems.
He was also one of the apartheid regime's most outspoken critics.
Correspondents say the killing has shocked South Africans who are already accustomed to one of the highest murder
rates in the world. Respect Local radio stations have been flooded with tearful callers expressing outrage at the murder and renewing demands that the authorities act to curtail crime. HAVE YOUR SAY He will
be missed as a great musician and for his love for the children and the suffering people in Africa Abitekaniza Denis, Kampala, Uganda Send us your
comments Some have called on the country's rugby team to show some form of respect when they take to the field in Saturday's World Cup
final against England in Paris.
The BBC's Mpho Lakaje, at the crash site on Thursday night, said Mr Dube's silver-grey Chrysler was surrounded by a group of investigating officers.
He noticed bloodstains on the seats and shattered windows. Witnesses say after the shots were fired the wounded 43-year-old singer tried to drive away,
but lost control of his car and hit a tree. "He was declared dead on the scene," Police inspector Lorrain Van Immareck told the BBC. She said it was suspected
that three people were responsible for the attack. Name Earlier this year, Mr Dube told the BBC that his parents named him Lucky after the death of an
earlier child. "When I was born I was sick so they thought I was going to die so they didn't give me a name till I was six months or so... They waited
for me to die, but when I didn't die they said, 'Wow, he's a very lucky boy!' So they called me Lucky," he said.
He began his career by singing mbaqanga (traditional Zulu) music and recorded his first album with the Super Soul band in 1982. He later moved into reggae, producing Rastas Never Die and Think About The Children in 1984. His albums Slave, Prisoner and Together
As One saw him gain first national, and then global, recognition.
Three years ago his 1989 anti-apartheid hit Together as One, which calls for world peace and harmony, was voted one of Africa's top 10 songs by BBC
readers and listeners. Lucky Dube released his most recent album, Respect,in April.
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