KENDREAD - LION TRAIN

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LION TRAIN

TRACKLIST


01 - Faja Burn
02 - Get Ready
03 - M’Africa
04 - Hail Him
05 - Lion Train
06 - Heavens Door
07 - My Father
08 - Heathens
09 - Your Love
10 - Tell Me Why (Featuring: Jah Red)
11 - Lion Dub


One World - 1998

KENDREAD
already is a well-known name inside the REGGAE world.


He started his musical career at a very young age.
As a young boy already he was moved through music.
He came to live in the Netherlands in 1975, where he
became RastaFarian at the age of 20 years.
After working with various artists and started a
couple of bands (i.e. Dasjan and The Revivals)
KENDREAD decides to continue as solo artist in the
year 1991.
He releases the cd “Culture Crash” in 1993
with the musical accompany of Dasjan.


MUSIC


KENDREAD’s writes his own music and lyrics and is easy
to recognize due to it’s unique sound. Religion, progressiveness and realism influences his lyrics.
“I create my own sound”, KENDREAD explains,
”No cross-overto hiphop or rap, only pure ROOTS REGGAE”.


HISTORY


“The Warriors”, it was the first reggae band KENDREAD played with.
After that he founded in 1985, together with some friendly musicians,
the formation “The Gideons”.
With them he recorded the single “National Team”.
In 1990 he was, together with his brother/drummer Edgar and the bassist
Jahman the base on witch the group called “Dasjan” (a mountain inEthiopia) was founded.
That same year KENDREAD joined ArtCon Music Productions, founded by Arthur Conley (1946 - 2003†)
Dasjan performed in 1991 at “The Grote Prijs van Nederland” and madeit through to the semi finals.
They were also invited for live performances
for several national radio stations.
Furthermore KENDREAD decides that year to go on as a solo artist
1992, KENDREAD performs as a guest musician with the reggae formation “The Creator’s” from Arnhem.
With them he releases the cd “Sranang lobie foe mie hatie”. In Suriname, this cd becomes so popular
that when “The Creator's” went out for a three months tour at there home country, they received a hero’s welcome and the song “Sranang” was chosen as national song.
“Culture Crash” is the first cd KENDREAD releases as solo artist in 1993.
With “Dasjan” as a accompany band KENDREAD performs national and international. Later the single cd “OneLove”(1996) and the cd “Lion Train”
(1998) where released where KENDREAD was accompanied by
“The Revivals” during live concerts.
KENDREAD and his backing band The Revivals performed on regularly bases in Germany with big, Jamaican artists like: Michael Prophet, Nardo Ranks, Errol Dunkley and others.
Also the tours to Austria and Sweden hadproven to be a big success and experience.