Lucky Dube ultimately shows how Africans have to find their way into the conversations of the Black Diaspora by mimicking their assertions of African authenticity or racial utopia. Through taking Jamaican roots music back to its roots, he recontextualized the oppression and political struggles that reggae seeps itself in, bringing the basis of the diaspora back in conversation with the diaspora at large to allow for a more pan-African form of cultural expression.ĭube's roots reggae brought African people to the table in terms of conversation about the black diaspora by mimicking Caribbean artists' assertions of African authenticity or racial utopia. Dube gave Africa a voice and put its culture on the global stage by joining the global reggae community. What Lucky Dube's music did was " a praxis of cross-culturality and visionary possibility" that the diaspora at large tends to erase. His parents separated before his birth and he was raised by his mother who named him Lucky because she considered his birth fortunate after a number of failed pregnancies.Īs one of the first artists to bring African reggae to the mainstream, Dube bridged cultural gaps within the African diaspora. Lucky Dube was born in Ermelo, formerly of the Eastern Transvaal, now of Mpumalanga, on 3 August 1964. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest-selling reggae artist. Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. SASS Nation is now one of Trinidad and Tobago 's premier soca bands and Trinidad and Tobago's only established female soca band. In the fall of 2011, Batson announced the launch of her all-female soca band, SASS Nation, alongside lead vocalists Terri Lyons and Megan Walrond. She is of Afro-Trinbagonian descent and has ancestry in the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. She then became the lone female voice in Kes the Band until 2011, when she left to form an all-female soca band called SASS in July 2011.
Batson joined Andre Tanker's One World Contraband where she stayed until his death in 2003. Batson began singing professionally at the age of 17. George's College until her graduate year in 1993. As a teen she became part of an all-girls group called Silhouette which won the popular Party Time show with an acapella version of En Vogue's remake of the Beatle's "Yesterday". Singing and writing since the age of eight, Batson started singing Quseedas, muslim ballads, while attending the St Joseph TML School. Nadia Batson was born on December 7 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and raised in Barataria, a small commercial town on the East–West Corridor outside Port of Spain City.
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