BUCKiT® #21-Roger Steffens: One of the Top Ten Most Influential People in Reggae Music

In 1979, just 5 weeks after launching Reggae Beat on the radio in Los Angeles, the host of the show gets a phone call from Island Records. Roger Steffens is about to be asked the question of a lifetime – “Would you like to go on tour with Bob Marley and the Wailers?” Roger Steffens is regarded as one of the Top Ten Most Influential People in Reggae Music. His Reggae Archives, the largest outside of Jamaica, includes over 300,000 titles on tape, CD and vinyl and the world’s most extensive collection of Marley/Reggae memorabilia -- plus hundreds of thousands of other Reggae and Rasta related items, fill over seven rooms in his Los Angeles home. For the past 45 years, this highly respected aficionado has been spreading the sounds and the history of reggae through his radio shows, lecture series, and displays at hundreds of venues. Ras Rojah, a nickname given to Roger by Marley himself, called the collection the most complete in the world. Rolling Stone Magazine said Steffens’ recently published book “So Much Things to Say” is the best Marley book ever! In this interview, Roger shares a wealth of stories and shares some of the secrets behind the legendary Bob Marley.