B.E.MANN WAS A FEATURED ARTIST IN A PAST ISSUE OF
" REGGAE NEWS MAGAZINE ", GERMANY'S #1 REGGAE MAGAZINE!
mARCH - mAY 2005 ISSUE
TO ORDER THIS ISSUE VISIT THEIR WEBSITE AT:
www.reggaenewsmagazine.de

Excerpts of the article reads:
RNM: " B.E.Mann is among one of the greatest Reggae Artist
of the century ever known to reggae music lovers. As a roots reggae
artist, he is one in a million. As a vintage reggae artist he brings all
soul to peace and makes them to feel irie. As a loversrock artist he
makes music the food of love and as a dub artist, his name will
be written on a plantar of Reggae-Gold ".


" B.E.Mann was influenced by artists like Aswad, Vivian Jones, Dennis Bovell, Dennis Brown, Jacob Miller,
Sly & Robbie, Sanchez and many UK Reggae artists.Rasta hardliners are often slow to recognize anyone who
doesn't embrace the outward trappings of the culture, especially a white guy closer in appearance to George
Michael than Peter Tosh. Having been a fixture in Northeast Ohio reggae circles since the late '80s, Mann has
often provoked the ire of scene diehards with his non traditional look and sound - a pastiche of bright pop, light rock,
club beats, over hardcore reggae rhythms. "The reggae world is fickle," Mann says outside the studios of Akron radio
station WAPS-FM 91.3, The Summit, where he's hosted a reggae radio show for the past 13 years. "You get some
people who are ignorant who think it's supposed to be strictly about dreadlocks, rastaor whatever, but most reggae
artists today or for the last 20 or 25 years haven't sung about rasta or dreadlocks exclusively. Reggae even
started and first became popular in the early days with a more ‘pop’ ideology. Songs with hooks, melodies, and structure.
You will find a lot of it about love, life, and dancing. It's actually great that some people want to be protective of the
element of roots and rasta, but that's not the whole scene of reggae, it really isn't. There are so many different sub
genres of reggae with each artist having their own place in the scheme of things. Luciano or Morgan Heritage I am not,
but how could people expect me to be? I am myself and that is what I do best. I have grown to know that I have a specific
part to do in the world of reggae music, and that is what I do. I bring reggae to usual non reggae listeners. I have exposed
new fans to a sound that they intinally would have never had given a chance. Do you realize how many people I have
turned onto reggae and other artists by first introducing them to my sound? The numbers are countless. " Mann's music
isn't as deep as it is danceable on some of his releases such as his release Kaleidoscopes Part 1: The Pop Songs
(for which he wrote, recorded, and produced himself), but he hits the mark with some of his other titles including his latest
hardcore reggae release ‘Kaleidoscopes Part 2: The Reggae Songs’. When toasting on the mic Mann sounds
a bit like Uroy mixed with Shaggy, and when singing his voice is smooth as silk. He often has been compared to a
having a vocal tone somewhat between Sanchez and Frankie Paul.
Critics worldwide have nicknamed him ‘the energy man’ for his high energy dance powered live shows.

Since 1987 Mann self-released 22full length albums so far. He has performed 2,200 plus live shows and counting,
co-actor on two kids TV shows in the USA, host/programmer of Akron’s only long time running reggae radio program
‘Reggae Rhythms from around the world, and he writes jingles for commercials and t.v.shows. Recently Mann was included
on the first ever international reggae cd tribute to Peter Tosh (‘Put My Faith In Jah’ featured the original track ‘Irie’ by
B.E. Mann alongside legendary artists Luciano, Bob Andy, Peter Tosh, Joe Higgs, Toots & The Maytals, Edi Fitzroy,
Mikey General and others. Available at ptosh.com). His breakthrough disc 1999's Energy Man, sold over 50,000 copies
worldwide, and he's moved another 50,000 records since then. He's had six number one hits in eight different
European countries. He even has his own merchandise line which hawks everything from lunch boxes to thongs. As a
community activist Mann often visits schools to speak about life as a musician, and about fighting racism. A burgeoning
reggae singer Mann began winning local talent contests in middle school while learning how to play trumpet, guitar, keys,
and bass. Beginning in '91 he fronted ‘The King ov Heartz world reggae band’ before getting a break in '95, when he was
asked to front for Island recording artists Identity. "My whole angle is to open reggae up to new people," Mann says.
"As the years went on, I made a conscious decision that I wouldn't try and be a Bob Marley rip-off, I wouldn't try and be
something I wasn't. I would do the music that I loved, but I would be myself in it. I felt that as long as some of the hardcore
people knew that I was sincere - that they understood that I wasn't trying to rip off what they were doing,I could be accepted.
In my entire adult years reggae music has been my life. I eat, breathe, sleep reggae. Thats how it has turned out and I am
fortunate and greatful. I am a conscious, positive reggae artist. Just because somebody has dreads that doesn't mean a
thing because there are so many vultures and wolves among the sheep.
Albert Griffiths of the Gladiators said it best years ago, “looks is deceiving".