As a youth in Reunion, Black Nation discovered Rastafari and roots-reggae through the songs of Bob Marley. That faith, and sound, inspire his own music.<\/p>\n
A committed Rastafarian, Black Nation shows his love for Rasta on\u00a0La Force JAH<\/strong>, the title song from his second album of the same name. That eight-song set covers diverse topics but\u00a0La Force JAH<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0holds pride of place.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not insensitive to pollution and overconsumption, but I also wanted to pay tribute to Marcus Garvey, for whom I have great respect, and to Rastafari,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Born Mira Jean Luc, Black Nation cut his teeth in bands in Reunion, an island in the Indian Ocean described as a department of France. In 1999, he made his recording debut and three years later, formed the band that bears his moniker.<\/p>\n Produced by Vibration Roots,\u00a0La Force JAH<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is recorded in French, the official language of Reunion. It came out 12 years after his debut album, Nout\u2019Koulers, and contains message songs such as La Mizer<\/em><\/strong> and Galiz.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe idea of a second album was above all, for me, a way of getting across a message of protest with tracks like La Miz\u00e8r<\/em><\/strong> or Galiz<\/em><\/strong>, for example, but also a more spiritual message through\u00a0La Force JAH<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0or Jah Bless<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d said Black Nation, who points to his homeland, Madagascar and France as his most receptive markets.<\/p>\n Reggae has a strong following in Reunion. In addition to Black Nation, popular homegrown bands include Natty Dread and Sly Sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a youth in Reunion, Black Nation discovered Rastafari and roots-reggae through the songs of Bob Marley. That faith, and sound, inspire his own music. A committed Rastafarian, Black Nation shows his love for Rasta on\u00a0La Force JAH, the title song from his second album of the same name. That eight-song set covers diverse topics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10804,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions\/10804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}