Alpha Blondy—feature filmmakers—Taale & Jerry rap

Bring Peace Now! podcast presents: Filmmakers Taale Laafi Rosellini and Jerry Weissman rap about two exciting films they made about Alpha Blondy, the International African Reggae Superstar. Taale and Jerry have a dynamic conversation focusing on the making of two landmark documentaries.  Alpha Blondy—Prophet in the New World, a riveting 33-minute film, had a surprise broadcast via Ivory Coast TV and "went viral" worldwide via video. That was the first documentary film made about Alpha Blondy. ALPHA!—a two-hour feature documentary on Alpha Blondy, the singer and his message of peace and harmony, is on the home stretch, and almost ready to be released! Film Producer Taale Rosellini kept working on the feature project over a span of 30 more years—and the film will now include interviews with Alpha Blondy speaking to the world public in Jula, French and English, and interviews with sixteen of the most renowned African and Reggae singers on the planet—all speaking about the message of African and Reggae music: Pato Banton of the United Kingdom. Frederick "Toots" Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals. Mutabaruka, the dub poet of Jamaica. Youssou N'Dour, Baaba Maal and Ishmael Lô of Senegal. Manu DiBango of Cameroon. Thomas "The Lion of Zimbabwe" Mapfumo.  Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi of Zimbabwe. Lucky Dube of South Africa. Majek Fashek and Baaba Tunde Olatunji of Nigeria. Habib Koité, Apfel Bocoum, Oumou Sangare and Salif Keita of Mali.