ROGER STEFFENS’ REGGAE ARCHIVES 
1865 LEMOYNE ST. 
LOS ANGELES, CA 90026  

To Whom It May Concern: 

My name is Roger Steffens. I have been involved in reggae music since 1973, initially as an NPR broadcaster with a program that was syndicated to 130 stations worldwide, based out of KCRW in Los Angeles. I am the founding Chairman of the Reggae Grammy Committee and served in that capacity for 27years. I am the first and most frequent speaker at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and have lectured at Harvard, the Smithsonian, Seattle’s Museum of PopCulture (formerly known as the EMP Museum), the Grammy Museum, and at hundreds of other major venues throughout the world. I have written six books about Bob Marley and the history of Jamaican music. My reggae activities have brought me together with Dr. Kara (K.C.) Carter. The day we met, she showed me some truly extraordinary photographs she had taken at the Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip of Bob Marley’s final appearance in Los Angeles in 1979.  Over 40 years after the Reggae Prophet’s passing, there are almost no unseen photos of him left. As founding editor of the world music journal The Beat, I had occasion to see a broad range of international photos of Marley, and I must say that Dr. Carter’s images rank with the very best of them – besides the fact that they are in sumptuous color, at a time with most photography was black-and-white. It would be difficult to put an exact value on these photographs. Marley is a worldwide icon, about whom the head of Amnesty International has said, “Everywhere I go in the world today, Bob Marley is the symbol of freedom.” His immortality is secured, and I daresay that Dr. Carter’s priceless pictures should become part of his heritage. Their value could easily be in the millions. 

Sincerely, 
Roger Steffens