Amlak Tafari International Reggae Am-BASS-Ador

  Contact Amlak     Amlak Tafari, an English-born Jamaican, is an internationally acclaimed musician. When he was    just six, he picked up the recorder and a mouth organ.  However, his musical career began at the    tender age of 10 when he joined a West Indian steel band at church. When he was 14, he joined his first reggae band, playing the rhythm and lead guitar.  With this band, Amlak went on to tour        Europe and Africa while also performing as rhythm guitarist for Musical Youth.  He began playing bass guitar; working and recording with such artists as  I Jahman Levi, Pablo      Moses, Culture, Beres Hammond, Luciano, and the legendary Big Youth from Jamaica. He first     joined Pato Banton's band, the Reggae Revolution, in 1989 as rhythm lead guitarist -- switching to bass guitar in 1991 after brief stints with Lieutenant Stitchie, Earl Sixteen and Mikey Dread.  In    January 1995, Pato Banton and the Reggae Revolution skyrocketed to #1 in the U.K. and various   countries around the world with "Baby Come Back",  recorded with UB40. Their hit song,           "Bubbling Hot",  recorded with Ranking Roger of The English Beat, charted at #1 in various        countries world wide. They've also had chart success with long-time friend Sting on "The Cowboy Song" and "Spirits in the Material World".  Amlak Tafari has toured internationally in    North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa.  Among his many tours,         Amlak's favorite was the recent 50th Anniversary Bob Marley Tour, featuring Ziggy Marley, the original Wailers, the I-Three's, Pato Banton and Jimmy Cliff. Amlak has also performed as frontman/MC for dance band Piano Man, whose song 'Blurred"        climbed to #6 in the British pop charts.  He appeared on MTV's biggest ever four-country            simultaneous broadcast, featuring many of the worlds top artists. Amlak recently co-produced and programmed a debut "My Girl"  and its B-side "My Love" for     long-standing friend Dennis Seaton, former lead singer of Musical Youth. Dennis's new band,        XMY, will be working closely with Amlak to produce their debut album. He has also co-produced tracks internationally, working with Boom Shaka, a California-based band, and in South America,  Djembe, an up-and-coming Brazilian reggae band. Tafari has been co-writing with various artists, including Pato Banton. He wrote and performed the Spanish DJ-rap for  the track "Ven A Mi Fiesta" for Pato's latest album "Stay Positive". He also      played bass, as well as additional lead and rhythm guitar on the album, demonstrating his linguistic  adaptability and unique artistic expression.   He has appeared in Bass Player magazine representing Dean Markley Strings and uses David Eden  Bass Systems; both with whom he has full endorsements. A native of Birmingham in the U.K., also home of Joan Armatrading, UB40 and Steel Pulse,          Amlak's versatility ranges from producing, arranging and song-writing. He is expanding his           extraordinary talent into other areas         This Web Site Is I&I Produced By.... Rasta Bear Productions