Lucky Ddibe'st aka Kabedoopong Piddo Ddibe'st Lucky (pronounced di—best],  born, presumably, on 25 February 1990, is a Ugandan reggae musician and a published poet, born and bred in Kitgum, Northern Uganda.

 

He has three songs in English, and  is working on other reggae music, some of which are in Acoli (Luo) language. His name is Ddibe, named after a chief of Padibe, a town council in Lamwo, northern Uganda. He renounced his name Oscar due to its affiliation to the Greek gods, which he considers evil and colonialist, before taking on Lucky. His parents first separated in 1999 and this made him grow at his maternal place here he attended his primary and secondary schools from till 2012 when he and his brother collected his mother and brought her back at his birthplace to reunite the parents again.

 

Stage name

Lucky Ddibe'st

 

Born:

Kabedoopong Piddo Ddibe

25 February, 1990

 

Birthplace:

Obem North, Pamolo Parish, Labongo-Layamo Sub-county, Chua West, Kitgum district, northern Uganda, East Africa

 

Occupation:

Musician, poet

 

Spouse(s)

Lydia Nuwampiire

 

Children:

One (Ruping Ddibe'st Antony)

 

Genres

Reggae/Ska/Roots

 

Instruments

Guitar, Vocals, and keyboard

 

Years active

2018 — present

 

Labels 

Talent Records(Soroti), Sauti ya Africa (Kitgum)

 

Associated acts

One Love Band (The Blood Brothers)

 

 

 

Beginning of his musical career

 

Ddibe'st first worked as a hired secondary school teacher for English language and literature for about eight years, and it was within this period when he started recording some of his songs that he wrote as a young lyrical poet for about three years. Drawing inspiration largely from Lucky Dube, Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh,  he felt the socio-political messages associated with Jamaican reggae were relevant to Ugamdan audience, and then, joining his poet and literature teacher friend, Stephen Obella from Amuria, they recorded their ever first song "Beggars on the Streets" at Talent Records, Soroti, 2018. It was a rap in reggae his friend did as he did the vocal. The song was hailed by a Kitgum Radio presenter as one of his best in message. He soon followed it by "Emma", 2019 a better sung-love song but a badly-produced one which he considered redoing. This Emma song was followed by his hit song, " Kids Having Kids", 2021, that an organization considered promoting due to its Children's Rights promotion message. He's been chosen to perform it at the African Child Day, Kitgum, 16th June, 2021. His latest song Kids Having Kids is playing in all radio stations in Kitgum due to its indiscriminating messages, be it a strictly Christian or non-christian radio stations.

 

In addition to performing music Dube was a sometime actor, in a beginning movie group, Padibe Town council, Lamwo, 2015.

He is a revolutionary poet in so far as he introduced a competing version to Reggae's constant tendency of romanticizing the utopian homeland of Africa, and publishing hundreds of his poems about Africa and black race. He uses both music and poetry, to unleash his heart for africa, as a platform to promote racial equality within Africa and fight corruption that has deeply eaten Africa up. He uses dub to frame his arguments about colonialism and the African Slave trade, and how he feels that Africa should be reclaimed by the black race, especially the blacks outside Africa.