The Rastafarmers

The Rastafarmers certainly are a lively band of mainly Chicanos located in Phoenix, AZ. Users Ras Patrick and Keith “Renaldo” Jennings founded the seven-piece music group around 1990. Merging elements of rock and roll, low-rider oldies, dancehall, soca, Afro-beat, Latin, and origins, the Rastafarmers’ audio is truly exclusive. They consider themselves underdogs within the reggae picture: too blended for purists also to reggae-ish for staunch R&B afficionados. They’re simply different; Chicanos who play reggae using a rock and roll age group sprinkled with R&B isn’t the norm. Furthermore, they sing Afro-beat music in Spanish and perform UFO choices once in a while. They keep active playing Arizona’s Indian Reservations, nightclubs, academic institutions, and festivals, and also have distributed levels and billings with Dark Uhuru, Burning up Spear, Metal Pulse, Mighty Diamond jewelry, Lifestyle, Yellowman, Messenjah, Internal Group, Ini Kamoze, and Big Hill. Ras Patrick, who telephone calls himself a “Rasta Chicano,” may be the groupings’ primary songwriter, vocalist, and key pad player. He was raised bouncing to Battle, Earth, Breeze & Fireplace, and George Clinton while cruising south Phoenix in his valued charcoal-grey 1948 Chevy. He performed trumpet in senior high school, but ditched the horn after going to Jamaica to start out performing. He writes and sings lots of the groupings’ tunes in Spanish. Patrick functions as a freelance designer and shows music and artwork in workshops for children and adults. Rastal Bassie Renaldo “Keith” Jennings takes on them weighty bass grooves that produce you tremble your booty within the dancefloor and he also writes and sings. Richard A. Castillo, aka DJ Regulation, is an effective Phoenix lawyer by day time, “the mad percussionist” at night. Ben Molina provides special details on percussion and harmonica; Erick Steffans takes on the rock and roll influenced acoustic guitar, low rider grooves, and skanks; Keith Jennings Jr., Richard’s child, plays secrets and percussion; and Wendall Hercules may be the always-on-time one-drop drummer. Not merely do they cause you to dance, nevertheless, you also experience the cause if they jam their socio-political message music about oppression. They’re number 1 on Phoenix’s Indian Reservations and desire to increase that love using the launch of a fresh CD that strike the roads in 2000.