But who is this Lucky Dube?
He has been to Uganda so many times but those who love him just keep loving him. They describe his live performances as splendid. “He can make a nun throw her leg in the air,†a female fan says
By Denis Jjuuko
He has been to Uganda so many times but those who love him just keep loving him.
They describe his live performances as splendid. “He is entertaining. He gives your money’s worth. He can make a nun throw her leg in the air,†a female fan says. Ladies and gentleman, he is Lucky Dube.
The man is going to make Kampala come to a standstill.
South Africa’s most sought after singer and the world’s reggae living legend, Lucky Dube, is due to perform here in Kampala early next month.
The superstar with over 12 albums emblazoned with his name will be in Kampala for the sixth time in his musical career starting with a VIP show on August 1 at Nile Hotel gardens for a mere sh20, 000.
On Saturday, he will join thousands of Baganda at Bowa in Bulemezi to mark Kabaka Ronald Mutebi’s 10th coronation anniversary. He will not perform while there, he is just going to probably prostrate before the king. On Sunday, he will perform at Nakivubo Stadium for sh10, 000.
Dube is popular in Uganda. But that looks like an understatement. Details reaching here indicate that his fans from Kenya and Tanzania have started warming up for the show. Dube’s music cuts across all generations. He appeals to both the youth and to the old bats regardless of whether they are urban or rural. Lucky Dube is the man.
He is the only artist in Uganda to have caused a stampede that left people dead at Nakivubo Stadium a couple of years ago. To be precise, the reggae man enjoys a status here in Uganda no foreign artiste can match.
Born Ermelo Dube, 39 years ago, the outspoken performer we worship today started off his singing career in the early 1970s in traditional Zulu Mbaganga styles.
At the age of nine, he was already conducting school choirs. He sang with school bands majoring in Rock and Roll. Music had always been a way of his family’s life. After a while with the school bands, he joined his singing cousin, Richard Siluma’s band, The Love Brothers recording his first single in 1979.
However, the Zulu styles were never to bring him the untold fame he basks in today. He switched to a more vibrant genre, which is reggae. With inspiration from his childhood hero, Peter Tosh, Dube recorded his first reggae song in 1984.
Like Tosh, his lyrics were controversial and the all- white regime in South Africa banned his first reggae recording from radio play. Rastas Never Die was too much for the Apartheid managers.
Still determined, he went back to the studio to record his second album Think About the Children. It received a wide audience and Lucky Dube shot to super stardom, and has stayed put. Some observers think Dube’s first efforts were recorded when he released Slave in 1990, his third album simply because it sold over half a million copies. Slave was followed by Prisoner the following year. He has been releasing at least one album every year.
In 2002, he gave us Soul Taker with Put a Little Love as the lead song.
The hit combines heavy bass, gasping keyboard and fantastic voices from him and his back-up singers. As usual, the man will come down here with his entire group. We await his two shows. And by the way he has a new album to be launched here in Kampala.
He has been to Uganda so many times but those who love him just keep loving him.
They describe his live performances as splendid. “He is entertaining. He gives your money’s worth. He can make a nun throw her leg in the air,†a female fan says. Ladies and gentleman, he is Lucky Dube.
The man is going to make Kampala come to a standstill.
South Africa’s most sought after singer and the world’s reggae living legend, Lucky Dube, is due to perform here in Kampala early next month.
The superstar with over 12 albums emblazoned with his name will be in Kampala for the sixth time in his musical career starting with a VIP show on August 1 at Nile Hotel gardens for a mere sh20, 000.
On Saturday, he will join thousands of Baganda at Bowa in Bulemezi to mark Kabaka Ronald Mutebi’s 10th coronation anniversary. He will not perform while there, he is just going to probably prostrate before the king. On Sunday, he will perform at Nakivubo Stadium for sh10, 000.
Dube is popular in Uganda. But that looks like an understatement. Details reaching here indicate that his fans from Kenya and Tanzania have started warming up for the show. Dube’s music cuts across all generations. He appeals to both the youth and to the old bats regardless of whether they are urban or rural. Lucky Dube is the man.
He is the only artist in Uganda to have caused a stampede that left people dead at Nakivubo Stadium a couple of years ago. To be precise, the reggae man enjoys a status here in Uganda no foreign artiste can match.
Born Ermelo Dube, 39 years ago, the outspoken performer we worship today started off his singing career in the early 1970s in traditional Zulu Mbaganga styles.
At the age of nine, he was already conducting school choirs. He sang with school bands majoring in Rock and Roll. Music had always been a way of his family’s life. After a while with the school bands, he joined his singing cousin, Richard Siluma’s band, The Love Brothers recording his first single in 1979.
However, the Zulu styles were never to bring him the untold fame he basks in today. He switched to a more vibrant genre, which is reggae. With inspiration from his childhood hero, Peter Tosh, Dube recorded his first reggae song in 1984.
Like Tosh, his lyrics were controversial and the all- white regime in South Africa banned his first reggae recording from radio play. Rastas Never Die was too much for the Apartheid managers.
Still determined, he went back to the studio to record his second album Think About the Children. It received a wide audience and Lucky Dube shot to super stardom, and has stayed put. Some observers think Dube’s first efforts were recorded when he released Slave in 1990, his third album simply because it sold over half a million copies. Slave was followed by Prisoner the following year. He has been releasing at least one album every year.
In 2002, he gave us Soul Taker with Put a Little Love as the lead song.
The hit combines heavy bass, gasping keyboard and fantastic voices from him and his back-up singers. As usual, the man will come down here with his entire group. We await his two shows. And by the way he has a new album to be launched here in Kampala.