Levi Roots
ABOUT LEVI ROOTS
Reggae musician who became a celebrity chef with his Reggae Reggae jerk barbecue sauce and the restaurant Papine Jerk Centre in Battersea. A remix of his song Cool Me Off has accumulated over 500,000 streams on Spotify.
He performed "Happy Birthday Mr. President" for South Africa's Nelson Mandela .
He went on the UK television reality show Dragon's Den to win £50,000 in funding for his Reggae Reggae Sauce, which he co-promoted with a song by the same name.
Born Kieth Valentine Graham, he had eight kids with seven different women.
He was a friend and colleague of fellow reggae artist Bob Marley .