7/30/2023 0 Comments Latest lucky dube songs![]() I can tell because as I go doing all these concerts, the attendance and the record sales keep increasing. And before reggae in South Africa, everyone seemed to be playing mbaqanga, sort of a Zulu pop disco music. Until 1985, or until Dube, South Africa had no reggae music. Now when I play in South Africa, everybody comes, white people too. ![]() But five years ago, the police would come to the shows and listen to what you sing, and if they didn’t like it, they would tear-gas the place and chase everybody away. “It doesn’t happen now because there have been a lot of changes in my country. “I used to have a lot of trouble with the police, but I got used to it,” Dube said in a recent phone interview. And just five years ago, his concerts in his homeland were more like, well, riots. His first reggae album, “Rastas Never Die,” was banned by the government. ![]() ![]() But it wasn’t always blue skies, green lights and the check is really in the mail for Dube. ![]()
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