Salem’s fledgling Community Radio station KMUZ 88.5 is sponsoring Roger Steffens’ world-famous 2-hour multi-media ‘The Life of Bob Marley (Part 2)’ show as a station fundraiser November 3rd at the Grand Theater in downtown Salem.
“The Life of Bob Marley” is an ever-changing two-hour multi-media show that Steffens has been presenting around the world for over 25 years. The show, which... [read more]

Salem’s fledgling Community Radio station KMUZ 88.5 is sponsoring Roger Steffens’ world-famous 2-hour multi-media ‘The Life of Bob Marley (Part 2)’ show as a station fundraiser November 3rd at the Grand Theater in downtown Salem.
“The Life of Bob Marley” is an ever-changing two-hour multi-media show that Steffens has been presenting around the world for over 25 years. The show, which began in 1984, has played to packed houses in Australia, Israel and Jamaica, as well as hundreds of halls across the US. Bob Marley, who died in 1981 at 36, is considered reggae’s greatest artist and a cultural icon. When he died of cancer Jamaica gave him a state funeral and hundreds of thousands of fans lined the roads as Marley’s body was transported back to his birthplace of Nine Miles.
Roger Steffens is the author of numerous reggae-related books, including Roger Steffens and Peter Simon’s Reggae Scrapbook (Palace Press/Random House, 2007), Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Definitive Discography, with Leroy Jodie Pierson, Bob Marley:Spirit Dancer, with Bruce Talamon (Norton 1994; new edition 2003); One Love: Life with Bob Marley and the Wailers with Lee Jaffe (Norton 2003).
Steffens co-hosted Reggae Beat on KCRW in Los Angeles from 1979 – 1987 along with many other reggae shows and has interviewed hundreds of reggae artists. He’s been the Chairman of the Reggae Grammy Committee, NARAS since its inception in 1984. He’s a three-time nominee for Martin’s International ‘Most Popular Reggae DJ in the World,’ and won the award in 1986.
“It’s never the same show twice, especially in recent years, with the ability of computers to assemble a lot of various things,” said Steffens, who shares video, audio, and still photographs during the show. He maintains that even though he has been doing the show for 25 years, he’s always learning new things about Marley. Steffens, who presented one version of the Marley show last year in Salem, promises all new material in ‘The Life of Bob Marley, Part 2.’
Roger Steffens is well-known as owner of the world’s largest reggae archives in his Los Angeles home, with nearly 300,000 items shoe-horned into 7 rooms.
Tickets are available online at TicketsOregon.com and in Salem at Ranch Records at 237 High Street NE. $10 Advanced, $12 at the door