Roger Steffens was born on June 17,1942 and is an American actor, author, lecturer, editor, reggae archivist, photographer, and producer.
16 Facts About Roger Steffens
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Roger Steffens was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Westwood, New Jersey.
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Roger Steffens graduated in 1960 from Bergen Catholic High School, where he had competed in public speaking competitions.
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Roger Steffens worked in National Reggae Promotions at Elektra Records in 1982, for Steel Pulse's True Democracy and Sunsplash '81: Tribute to Bob Marley.
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Roger Steffens worked in National Reggae Promotions at Slash Records in 1986, for Burning Spear's People of the World.
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Roger Steffens served in Vietnam and spent a year in Morocco before visiting Jamaica for the first time in 1976.
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Roger Steffens has a large collection of photographs covering his Vietnam service and Jamaican musicians, including many slides which were digitized and released via Instagram in 2013.
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Roger Steffens has been involved with a large amount of acting and narration work, both credited and uncredited.
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Roger Steffens provided narration in The Flight of the Gossamer Condor and the television documentary Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, and he portrayed Ben Veelchez in Dean Quixote, Daniel Golan in the 1999 film Deterrence, and a radio technician in Rollercoaster.
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Roger Steffens co-hosted Reggae Beat on KCRW from 1979 to 1987, and Reggae Beat International from 1983 to 1987, which was syndicated internationally to 130 stations.
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Roger Steffens served as a syndicated weekly contributor from 1993 to 1997 for Planet Reggae on the radio station Groove Radio 103 in Los Angeles.
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Steffens worked on several other radio shows, including Offbeat: The Roger Steffens Show, Sound of the Sixties, Morning Goes Makossa, Future Forward, and Poetry For People Who Hate Poetry.
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Roger Steffens has contributed to many music anthologies as a writer and photographer.
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Roger Steffens produced several reissues of Coxsone Dodd-produced early Bob Marley recordings for Heartbeat Records.
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Roger Steffens was a reader for the audiobooks Bill Gates' Business @ the Speed of Thought, The Man From St Petersburg, Big Two Hearted River: The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, and Mother Earth Father Sky.
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Roger Steffens provided the corporate voice for Time Warner Audio Books from 1996 until 2003.