Levi Roots

b. Keith Valentine Graham, 1958, Clarendon, Jamaica, West Indies. Levi is an affable man who has softened the industry's hardest critics with his charismatic personality. By the age of 12 Levi relocated in the UK with his family. He soon became involved in the local music scene, initially with the legendary Sir Coxsone Outernational Sound System. He primarily performed as a DJ on the sound before becoming one of England's leading exponents of the Roots and Culture movement. His recording debut, ‘Poor Man Story', was produced by Lloyd Coxsone and adroitly mixed by Dennis Bovell...