How he got his name.

Lucky Philip Dube was born on the 3rd of August in 1964. After a few failed pregnancy attempts by his mother Sarah, Lucky came into the world. Giving birth to a boy was considered a blessing and his mother considered his birth so fortunate that she aptly named him 'Lucky'.

Early influences.

Lucky began working at the age most western children enter school. He worked for a few years before joining a school himself out of necessity to provide for the family. He began by working in gardens around the white suburbs in the town.

By chance one day Lucky stumbled across some musical instruments at school in a cupboard and his curiosity was piqued. He and some friends decided to start experimenting and before long they had arranged times to meet and 'borrow' the instruments. The formed what was to be Lucky's first official band - The Skyway Band, and genuinely believed that they would find stardom. Unfortunately that all fell apart when they were discovered playing the instruments by a teacher who locked the instruments away from then on.

Lucky finds Reggae.

His first band, The Love Brothers played a traditional Zulu music known as Mbaqanga. It was not until his fifth album that he tried Reggae. it soon became apparent that the crowds were more responsive to these songs. Lucky and his engineer Richard decided it was time to record a full album of reggae songs and judge the response to that.

What started there set Lucky's career as we all know it in motion.

From luckydubemusic.com