At this time Dube’s fans were responding to some reggae songs he played during live concerts. After his fifth Mbaqanga album, he dropped the "Supersoul" name.
On the second album, Dube wrote some of the lyrics, sang and also began to learn English.
Their debut album was released under the name Lucky Dube and the Supersoul. While Dube was still attending classes, the band recorded material in Johannesburg during his school breaks. The band signed with Teal Record Company, (Teal was later incorporated into Gallo Record Company). At 18 Dube joined his cousin's band, The Love Brothers, playing Zulu pop music known as mbaqanga. While at school he discovered the Rastafari movement. There he joined a choir and, with some friends, formed his first musical ensemble, called The Skyway Band. Along with his two siblings, Thandi and Patrick, Dube spent much of his childhood with his grandmother, while his mother relocated to work.ĭube worked as a gardener but, realizing that he wasn't earning enough to feed his family, he began to attend school. She named him Lucky because she considered his birth fortunate after a number of failed pregnancies. His parents separated before his birth and he was raised by his mother, Sarah. Lucky Philip Dube was born in Ermelo, then in the Eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga, South Africa. He was a Black South African reggae musician. *Lucky Dube was born on this date in 1964.
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