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>> Great to have you. >> Its good to be here. >> Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me,
very happy to be here. >> We are so excited for you to be here. When you first started creating music, were you looking to continue
your father's legacy, or did you want to find your own voice?
>> When we started making music, my father was the one who helped us to
make the music, so he was here with us. He's the one that wrote our first song. It was in 1979, Aasong called Children
Playing in the Streets, back in Kingston, Jamaica. So he was with us,
he supported what we were doing. But his example that he set
in terms of using music, as a vehicle to spread
a message to the world, is an example that we continue to follow.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Is it just me, or I could just listen to
you talk all day long? [CROSSTALK]
>> I have to ask, how has reggae evolved since you started your career?
>> Well, reggae has always been
influenced by other music. In the early days, reggae was influenced
by what was happening in America, in New Orleans the jazz, the Blues scene. And as we've seen it evolve,
the next generation who play music today, it's been influenced by hip-hop and
R&B, the music that's happening today. So, reggae music is really a culmination
of different type of inspiration. With a strong foundation of,
it's a meditative, rhythmic type of mantra of music. That kinda get you hypnotized, but it
uses a different, all different types of elements from the different music as well.
>> [CROSSTALK] Beautiful. >> Yay. [LAUGH]
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Love it. >> So Ziggy, you're not only passionate about music,
but you're also passionate about food. I love that.
>> Yeah. >> [LAUGH] >> [APPLAUSE] >> So you and your wife, yes. You and your wife who's Israeli,
you guys made a cookbook together, and I love that you practice so many good,
healthy philosophies in it. Do you think that helps bring
your cultures together? The cultures, if your culture and your
Israeli background into the ingredients, how did the cookbook come about?
>> Ya man, well we're cooking.
>> Ya man [LAUGH]
>> Food play a very important part in my life. From growing up,
we had an example of living in Jamaica. It was natural food. We used to go to the seaside and
get [INAUDIBLE], and do all that type of stuff. So food for us is a part of our,
not just about like the taste of it, but what it does to our body.
>> Yeah. >> And so, I always have a saying that I
say is that I eat with my brain. Some people say, eat with your eyes,
I don't eat with my eyes I eat with my brain.
>> Mm-hm. >> And so, I think about what I'm and eating and what it does to me. My wife who comes from Israeli background,
her parents are from Persian background. I'm from Jamaican background, so once we got together we do
all of these family meals. Their, their tradition
is very family oriented. And, so there's a lot of dinners,
a lot of things going on. So, we just mix everything together and we just enjoy it.
>> That sounds delicious.
>> Love it. >> Yeah. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Israeli food, Jamaican food. >> Yeah. >> That sounds amazing. >> Yummy. >> Food for the soul, nourishment.
