Jamaican Ras Cardo ” Tafari” Says he created Regae Music
By Harry Taruva
Jamaican born Ras Cardo-Jahman Tafari has sensationally declared and claimed that he is the founder and creator of the World acclaimed music genre, Regae Music.
Tafari has written to Kwedu News after our publication did a story on 10 February 2023 entitled ” Regae the voice of African consciousness ”
In a letter to Hericom Media Tafari said
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Harry, you may have known that over the past 60 years since my reggae creation in Trench Town so much lies, deceit, and falsehoods about the Trench Town people , our music and our legends abounds.
Listen, even Jamaica is at fault as to how the music was stolen from Bob Marley whom we have shared with him in Trench Town. I WAS THERE, I AM A PART OF THIS HISTORY, I HAVE TOLD JAMAICA AND THE WORLD OVER THE YEARS. I HAVE THE ONLY DETAILED ARCHIVAL HISTORY OF TRENCH TOWN REGGAE HISTORY.AND OUR PEOPLE THERE DURING THOSE TIMES.**NO ONE ELSE ON PLANET EARTH CAN SAY THAT WITH TRUTH.**.”
“Greetings to you all with much love and respect
I am RAS CARDO from TRENCH TOWN JAMAICA who created Regae there in my backyard in 1962, and then share it with all the Trench Town people. I own exclusively the Regae creation Copyright
s for it and to use it as an education for the liberation of our people. You may see the COPYRIGHTS posted online for all the world to see ”
Tafari added saying it was him who actually first shared the music wuth Regae icons and luminaries like Bob Marley.
Meanwhile Ras Cardo has said he is ready to tell the world more details and show evidence of his Regae creation claims.
Records show Ras Cardo was born in Trench Town Jamaica in 1949 but Rastafarianism is believed to have originated in the 1930s
Rastafari originated among impoverished and socially disenfranchised Afro-Jamaican communities in 1930s Jamaica. Its Afrocentric ideology was largely a reaction against Jamaica’s then-dominant British colonial culture. It was influenced by both Ethiopianism and the Back-to-Africa movement promoted by black nationalist figures such as Marcus Garvey.
The religion developed after several Protestant Christian clergymen, most notably Leonard Howell, proclaimed that Haile Selassie’s crowning as Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930 fulfilled a Biblical prophecy. By the 1950s,
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