∙ He found a global audience with his 1987 LP, Slave, which sold 500,000 copies worldwide, while 1989’s Prisoner and 1993’s Victims both surpassed 1 million sales. ∙ Think About the Children-Dube’s 1986 album recorded in secret when his record company pressured him to return to mbaqanga music-went Platinum and made him a star. ∙ Inspired by the music of Peter Tosh and Jimmy Cliff, he switched to reggae on the 1984 mini-LP Rastas Never Die, which was banned by South Africa’s apartheid government. South African reggae artist Lucky Dube got his start playing traditional Zulu mbaqanga music, and he released several albums in that style.
