Did you hear that Manifest will be doing a regular reggae night?
Huuuuuuwhat?!
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiyeah!!!
Manifest will now have true Reggae happening every 2nd Thursday of the month, starting next month Febuary 11th, 2011 @ 10pm with a Guinness on special. And for those of you who don’t know, “Guinness for Strength.”
DJ Westafa, Born in Torrance, California had original roots reaching back to Hawaii where he now lives and works. His father, a native of the islands, would play island style music in bands around California but when asked about what first got Westafa interested in music, he says that his greatest influences were moments when Westafa and his friends would head over to neighbors garage. DJ Tres would let them go through records and play around with the tables, which he says, weighed heavily on his experiences spinning style to this day. At that time Hip Hop was what introduced him to the disc jockeying game but in high school he had had a “self discovery” . He was attracted to reggae because the people who were enthusiast “lived and breathed the music. The music came with a responsibility.”
Many years later he mentions that in comparison to a heavy metal band who might believe that they have an uphill battle in Honolulu because of what they’re playing, that he has an even greater uphill battle because everyone in Hawaii believes that what they are listen to and like IS reggae.
“People will show up to my gigs and patiently wait til after I spin a Gregory Issac’s record and ask, “When will you start playing reggae?”
Westafa hopes to achieve with his unique approach to reggae is “style” and with his own artistic brush stroke introduce music to the open mind appreciator a style one “can feel….vibrations from.”
-mf
