RAS DONOVAN (Kenrick Blaize) was born on the Caribbean Island Dominica. Before he came to Germany in 1988 he played the drums and guitar with different Caribbean bands. CREATION REBELS, ERADICATION SQUAD and HARD BLIND, just to mention a few.
Over Paris, London, Zurich, Copenhagen and Amsterdam, where he always joined the local reggae-scene, he finally came to Berlin. Here he played with different groups:
1988 guitar with LIVIN SPIRITS
1989 guitar, voc. with SOUL LIBERATORS
1990 arr., voc., guit. with MIX SQUARD
1993 founded his own group
1995 first CD "WORK IT OUT"
1999 second CD "ADT PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD"
2003 playing drums for the girls group BERLIN VIBES
2004 new project with DUB PASSPORT as bassplayer dub., voc.
2005 on the RYTHM & SOUND "SEE MI YAH" CD (Let we go)
Together with MIX SQUARD RAS DONOVAN played until 1993 very successful and all over Germany. Also as a backing group MIX SQUARD has become a good name: They played for people like JOSEPH COTTON, DENNIS ALCAPONE, ASHER D, ERROL DUNKLEY, TIPA IRIE and DADDY FREDDY. As front-band of THE WAILERS and PABLO MOSES MIX SQUARD have shown that even a big audience with demanding expectations was no problem to them.
1993 RAS DONOVAN founded his own group with musicians from the Caribbean, West-Africa, from Iran and Berlin.
1998 The RAS DONOVAN BAND played as backing-band for BIG YOUTH. 1999 RAS DONOVAN appeared at the Chiemsee Reggae Festival and the Wiesen Sunsplash in Austria.
RAS DONOVAN is a musician of the newer generation, who still is rooted deeply in the reggae tradition. Besides solid roots-reggae there are found modern stylistic elements of dancehall-reggae, rock and pop and also a bit of funk, hip-hop and soca in his music . His songs deal with love, but also with social and political problems. After his first successful CD WORK IT OUT RAS DONOVAN now published his second CD ALCOHOL, DRUGS & TOBACCO - PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD.
In 2001 Ras Donovan cooperated with Farhat Jouini and his band Band Ouled Jouini. The song Embaka, composed by Ras Donovan, was such a big success, when it was first presented on the Tunesian tv on 2.6.2001, that both toured together through Tounesia during the summer.Since 2002 Ras Donovan works very often with the musician Mapstation from Berlin. This cooperation resulted in some very unusual CD-projects.
And soon come the new album "Integration" 8th March 2008.
One Love to Jah people
new pix pon my page... ras donovan @ reggae nation festival 2008: bist n supatolla bassist und auch n großartiger sänger... hoffe, ich hab bald die chance dein album zu bekommen!!! ...bin am sonntag (31.8.) in berlin im raw.. :)
I miss that city. Wish I could be there even only one day. Have to stay here till december I think. What these guys doin here with me is mental slavery. When I come back it will be winter time.
Enjoy the summa in Berlin for me, even if its rainy. We have no rain here since 2 months, every day 38°C or 42°C even in winter time it is hot....
am 6.6.2008 releasen wir unser Album "Kaboom" im SO36. Als kleinen Vorgeschmack gibt es jetzt auf unserer Myspace - Seite ein Album Snippet zum reinschnuppern und unseren Hit "Achtung, Achtung" zum Download.
RASTAFARI LOVE MI BROTHER RAS DONOVAN THIS IS A RAHMAN REVELATION FROM GAMBIA BASE IN FRANCE I SAW YOUR SHOW AT THE BERLIN CARNAVAL IS GREAT. ME LOVE IT KEEP THE FIRE BURNING NICE TO HEAR FROM YOU
TALL UP LAPO! DOWNLOAD "BunFascism" PART ONE from the PLAYER NoW - BURN IT; PUSH IT; PLAY IT; SPREAD IT N ENJOY.....
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PRESS BANNER TO LISTEN SNIPPET
Place the Banners on your Page, spread the WORD and check d compilation @ SoundQuake, I-Tunes, Musicload etc etc... from the 18th on WorldWide - BUM(BROTHERS UNITED IN MISSION) !!!!!!
In the last weeks I put all my energy in the shop and the Ras Donovan CD and it would be nice if this seed that I planted will grow to a big tree.
Seven Seals should be more than just a Reggae Page. I like all kind of positive Music and for me it's very important that Music inform the people about the real situation on earth.
I am a man who believes in Jah and I know that we gave him different names in different languages but I know it's allways the same GOD.
So I respect everybody who believes in GOD no matter if it is a Rasta, a Christian, a Moslem or whatever.
I would be happy to get a reaction about the shop page, no matter if positive or negative.
wollten dir wenn auch etwas verspätet sagen, dass uns deine release party seeeeeeehhhhr beeindruckt hat!
schade, dass es an dem abend dein album noch nicht gab, wir hätten's sofort gekauft!!! warten sehnsüchtig auf das erscheinen dieser nicen scheibe..! :))
