Roger Steffans
(photo: Marcus Cuff)

Bob Marley
(photo: Roger Steffans,
Nov. 1979 "Survival" tour)

Roger Steffans presents
"The Intimate Bob Marley"

Friday, May 11, 9pm

Actor, historian, and reggae ambassador Roger Steffans' exhaustive collection of reggae music, history and memorabilia includes rare photographs, video, and conversations with noted reggae artists from around the world. Steffans has traveled extensively, presenting on Marley, his music, and his impact on both politics and entertainment. "

The Intimate Bob Marley" is composed of some of the most fascinating unseen interviews with Marley recently unearthed, coupled with never-before-seen photographs and unheard music from Roger Steffans' personal library.

BIO
Brooklyn-born Roger Steffens wears many hats: actor, author, lecturer, editor, photographer, reggae archivist, broadcaster, director and producer. His professional radio career began in N.Y. in 1961, and was highlighted by a ten-year stint on NPR's L.A. outlet, KCRW, where he hosted five shows including the award-winning "Reggae Beat," syndicated to over 130 stations worldwide during the 1980s. He has been acting in films, television and theater since 1965, and narrated an Oscar-winning documentary, "The Flight of the Gossamer Condor," in 1978.

But it is in his capacity as one of reggae music's biggest North American cheerleaders that he is perhaps best known. His Reggae Archives fill six rooms of his home, and contain the world's largest collection of Bob Marley material. From January to September of 2001 he curated a critically acclaimed 6,000 piece exhibition of his Reggae Archives at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA.

He lectures internationally on "The Life of Bob Marley," at venues ranging from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to the Smithsonian Institution to Seattle?s EMP. He is co-author of the award-winning Bob Marley and the Wailers: the Definitive Discogrpahy (Rounder, 2005), Bob Marley: Spirit Dancer (W.W.Norton 1994), and One Love: My Life with Bob Marley and the Wailers (W. W. Norton, 2003) and is the founding editor of The Beat magazine, the premiere reggae and world beat magazine, for which he edits an annual Bob Marley collectors' edition.

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