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My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life' is a tribute to roots reggae music. The fruit is what blossoms into different colors and shades, but the root has to stand predominant.

'Roots' did show that the audience would be receptive to black talent and a black story.

It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a journey from an African homeland to wherever you live.

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.