Friend of the Studio – Roger Steffens

Friend of the Studio, Roger Steffens, is pictured here with a tin of Ras Hurl’s “Blessings” Tea. In the background you can see posters designed by Kevin for Roger’s multimedia presentation, Life of Bob Marley. The photo was taken by our friend Steve when he was visiting Roger’s studio and going through his archives.

Roger is perhaps best known for his reggae archives, in particular his archives of Bob Marley. He travels the world lecturing on The Life of Bob Marley at hundreds of venues including the Smithsonian Institution, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Experience Music Project, American Film Institute, Red Rocks-Denver, University of the West Indies and University of Technology (Kingston, Jamaica), Schomburg Center for Black Research of the New York Public Library; Missouri History Museum, and countless Universities.

Roger has enjoyed Kevin’s Reggae festival posters so much he included some of his favorite in his book, Reggae Scrapbook.

Here is the Amazon write up for Reggae Scrapbook.

Guiding us on this colorful book-length journey is one of the men who introduced reggae to America and helped rock the world with its syncopated beat, Roger Steffens. Through lectures, books, magazine articles, radio, and television, Steffens has shared his knowledge of reggae from coast to coast. He is the world’s premier archivist and collector of reggae memorabilia, and brings the best of his in-depth interviews with such reggae legends as Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, and “Toots” Hibbert to this unique scrapbook.

Roger also added Kevin’s artwork to his book, “World of Reggae”. A number of Kevin’s Reggae posters can be viewed in his portfolio of Event Posters.

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