Late reggae icon Lucky Dube remains one of the top selling
artists both in retail stores and on digital platforms.
Dube, who was murdered in 2007, would have turned 56 today
and his music continues to wow the world even beyond the grave. Hit songs like
Slave, Remember Me, It's not Easy and Respect have garnered more than 50
million streams globally. Remember Me is sitting on over 20 million streams.
According to Gallo Music Records, Dube's music still
dominated sales in retail stores with the album The Times We've Shared,
released in 2017, receiving a lot of love from music fans globally.
Gallo said digital platforms such as Boomplay, which puts
him in the top 10 most-listened-to artists in Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana and
Kenya.
Gallo's marketing manager Carol Morabe said: "Lucky is
also embraced on a wider international scale with continued streaming support
in the US, the UK, France and Brazil.
"He remains an ambassador of African music globally,
and his legacy still lives on in the conscious message of peace and unity for
the world to enjoy.
"It's an honour and privilege to represent the icon
that is Lucky Dube and his vast catalogue which still has global influence
surpassing his death."
Anslom Nakikus from Papua New Guinea in Oceania, whose
music career was inspired by the late legend, said the world should remember
Dube as a poet, a philosopher, a prophet who preached unity among all different
colours of human beings.
Nakikus, a reggae star who came to SA earlier this year to
record his album at Downtown Studios, said he was drawn to Dube's music because
of the message and his style.
He said: "I was so captivated by the style of drums
playing on all his tracks and the style of how the keyboards were presented.
His music touched my life and many here in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.
His live performances around the world were awesome and so captivating and
inspirational. Sowetan
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