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Tuesday, 18 July, 2006, 8 p.m.
Talk (Café) 8.30 p.m.
Concert (Hall) 9 p.m.
Muffathalle

Reggae World Cup Final
Ziggy Marley
Special Guests: Xuman & Pee Froiss

Concert and Talk

Before Bob Marley's oldest son Ziggy, on his first appearance in Germany after six years, introduces his new album "Love is my Religion", the enthusiastic kicker and Pelé fan will talk about the Marleys and the leather ball. Soccer is a mirror of societies. What meaning does this sport have for "Peace and Unity" in the societies of the Caribbean? And what is the role played by the "One Love Football Match" organised each year in Jamaica?

Ziggy’s dad, musical legend Bob Marley, was a passionate football fan. If he hadn't dedicated his life to Reggae, he might have become one of the professionals on Jamaica's national team. His music, now as then, still is a major influence on the soccer world around the globe. Thus Adidas, on the occasion of the 1998 World Cup in France produced an advertising spot as an homage to Bob Marley. Liberia's football legend, George Weah, in many interviews quoted Bob as his idol, and often wore a Bob Marley T-Shirt under his strip. And the Reggae Boyz, Jamaica's national team, before each of the qualifying matches for the 1998 World Cup listened to Marley’s songs to keep the team spirit up.

At the early age of ten years, Ziggy recorded his first songs with father Bob. Later on, together with his brothers and sisters, he founded the Melody Makers, and went on to win three Grammies with them. But since his album "Dragonfly" at the latest, in 2003, Ziggy has been a distinctive solo artist, developing his specific mix of Roots Reggae, Blues, R& B and HipHop.

Crossover is also the motto with the guests from West Africa: Xuman, a Senegalese MC, who grew up on the Ivory Coast, and his Pee Froiss are building bridges between HipHop, Dancehall and urban African sounds. With their profound, socially critical texts, which don't even stop at football, caught as it is in between being a unifying force and being exploited for political and economic purposes, they have long since become the mouthpiece of the youth of West Africa.

“Freedom. Football is Freedom”
(Bob Marley)

(Picture: Copyright Julian Schmidt www.reggaephotos.de)

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