The past two years has seen American singer Brandon Rootz work with some of the biggest names in reggae \u2014 from Luciano to guitarist Earl \u201cChinna\u201d Smith and producer Lloyd \u201cKing Jammy\u201d James.<\/p>\n
For the past month, the California-born artist has been on the road with Barrington Levy. He is the opening act for the legendary singer\u2019s \u2018A Fi Yuh\u2019<\/em><\/strong> tour of the United States.\u00a0 Brandon Rootz does a half-hour set that comprises songs he recorded in Jamaica.<\/p>\n \u201cMy performance is 30 minutes. I perform all my original songs that will be on my new album that I will finish in Tuff Gong studios in Kingston. Some of the songs I perform in my set are \u2018Blue Mountains\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018Without the Greed\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018Picture Frame\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018Only You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018The Goblin\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, and \u2018House of A Rasta Man\u2019<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d he disclosed.<\/p>\n Touring with Levy is a major career boost for Brandon Rootz who grew up in Northern California admiring reggae artists like Levy and Bob Marley. He has visited Jamaica regularly since 2023, recording songs with top musicians such as Smith, drummer Kirk Bennett and saxophonist Dean Fraser.<\/p>\n \u201cThis tour has already opened many doors for my career. There are many opportunities for future tours and bookings coming my way from this tour. The sky is the limit,\u201d said Brandon Rootz.<\/p>\n One of the most influential vocalists in reggae, Levy is best known for songs such as \u2018Under me Sensi\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, \u2018Here I Come\u2019 and \u2018Black Roses\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. Currently promoting songs like \u2018A Fi Yuh\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, he opened the tour on June 1 in Tucson, Arizona and is scheduled to close on September 14 in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The past two years has seen American singer Brandon Rootz work with some of the biggest names in reggae \u2014 from Luciano to guitarist Earl \u201cChinna\u201d Smith and producer Lloyd \u201cKing Jammy\u201d James. For the past month, the California-born artist has been on the road with Barrington Levy. He is the opening act for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11308","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\/11308","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=11308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11309,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions\/11309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}