20th November 2007 @ 10:30am
Almost thirty years after Bob Marley's one and only visit to New Zealand in 1979, Roger Steffens is bringing his acclaimed 'Life Of Bob Marley' show to New Zealand for the very first time.
For years Roger has enthralled audiences with hours of unreleased films and videos and his own unique observations and insights. Roger's show is packed with some remarkable new footage and of course his own brilliant and highly entertaining personal anecdotes about the reggae singer and freedom fighter for equal rights and justice. 'Every time I see your show, I learn something new about my son' - Cedella Booker (Bob Marley's Mother)
Roger's Reggae Archives are the largest repository of Marley memorabilia in the world and include hundreds of hours of unreleased video and film. 'Every show I do is different', says Steffens. 'I'm constantly learning new things about this extraordinary man who is considered to be The Artist Of the Century'.
In June of 2001, Roger presented this programme in Jamaica for the very first time at the University Of Technology, and received a standing ovation from an audience that included dozen's of Marley's friends, associates and relatives.
A radio host, DJ, writer, lecturer and chairman of the Reggae Grammy committee, Roger has spent much of his life as an apostle of Bob Marley whom he met twice before Marley's death from cancer. His Reggae Archives currently include a staggering 300,000 titles on tape, record and CD and have been valued at well over a million dollars.
As well as co-authoring a number of definitive books on Marley and researching many others, he was co founder of Beat magazine and is a regular contributor to publications such as Rolling Stone, Spin, The Village Voice, NY Times, LA Times and High Times. Roger was host of the award winning Reggae Beat on influential LA based and nationally syndicated radio station KCRW.
THE REGGAE SCRAPBOOK
The Reggae Scrapbook is a musical and visual delight that allows for total immersion into the brilliant, pulsating, vital, multicultural world that is reggae today. From its birth in the vibrant Kingston ghettos through its phenomenal popularity in the seventies to its iconic standing in today's global culture, reggae has taken the world by storm. In the Reggae Scrapbook, scintillating words and images propel our appreciation of Jamaican music into the 21st Century.
Roger Steffens brings the fruit of his in-depth interviews with such reggae legends as Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, and 'Toots' Hibbert to us. A chronological overview supplemented both with sidebar features on historic figures, styles, and events, the Reggae Scrapbook is all you could wish for in a celebration of the rise of this irresistible musical and social force.
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