MUTABARUKA - REGGAE SUNDANCE 08/2013

"Yes, definitely so."

PROTOJE - REGGAE SUNDANCE 08/2013

"I guess that must have been from around the age of ten as it was around that age I first started to get the urge to go on stage and sing."

JAH9 - REGGAE GEEL 08/2013

"I think I can best sum it up by saying I use the arts, whether it be spoken word, poetry, visual arts or dance to help inner city youths unlock their full potential."

ADDIS PABLO - REGGAE GEEL 08/2013

"No, that's right; I already collaborated with Pura Vida over here."

PENTATEUCH - REGGAE GEEL 08/2013

"Exactly, we all have Christian backgrounds and grew up on the principles of righteousness and love."

FREDDIE MCGREGOR - REGGAE GEEL 08/2013

"I saw this album a bit as a closing chapter in a 50 year journey.

IBA MAHR - REGGAE GEEL 08/2013

"It's basically an acronym with the first two letters standing for my birth name Mario and the last two Harar, the city in Ethiopia and the birthplace of Haile Selassie I."

TERAKAFT (SANOU AG AHMED) - SFINKS 07/2013

"No, there aren't any big differences because we all started out playing music together.

KY-MANI MARLEY - SFINKS 07/2013

"Well, to be honest I cannot remember ever having the intention to go into the music business."

SYLFORD WALKER - MAGIQ SPIEGELTENT ANTWERPEN 07/2013

"Well, I did record a tune for Clive Chin earlier, but that was never released."

MAGUARE (PAOLA MARQUEZ) - CAFE ZEEZICHT 07/2013

"Yes and no.

MORGAN HERITAGE (UNA MORGAN) - COULEUR CAFE 06/2013

"(laughs) I know! The theory behind that is that for every king there's a queen and that doesn’t necessarily have to be stressed because it all depends on your outlook on life and the things you believe in."

RAGGASONIC - COULEUR CAFE 06/2013

"Nothing we did was ever premeditated; things just started happening and we enjoyed the ride! Even our talent developed kind of organically; we never took any singing classes or what have you; our roots are in sound system."

ONDATROPICA - COULEUR CAFE 06/2013

"No, that's not really what we were going for.

IRON ITES - RADIO CENTRAAL 05/2013

"The good thing that has come from winning this contest is that more and more people are getting to know us.

BACIAMOLEMANI - CAFE ZEEZICHT 05/2013

"As you just said, it was the traditional way of greeting someone from the mafia; translated it means something like: "Let's kiss hands!", but by adopting that as the name for our band we wanted to break the stereotypes that still exist about Sicily.

TAJ WEEKES - NATURAL CAFFÈ 05/2013

"St.

CAPLETON - PETROL 04/2013

"St.

TWINKLE BROTHERS - VK 04/2013

"That was in the early days, back in the early nineteen sixties."

SMILEY - JH DE BOGAARD 03/2013

"I'm from Aruba in the Caribbean and there I started performing around the age of sixteen, but at that stage I was still doing calypso and zouk, genres that are very popular on the islands.