Reggae singer Rippa Jackson guest stars on ALL AXE-S #78 this week.  Hosted by Heike Wollenweber, ALL AXE-S is a dance­hall reg­gae show fea­tur­ing spe­cial guests and all of the lat­est dance­hall sin­gles and riddims. Find out all you need to know about the artist by the up and coming Rippa Jackson! Tune in this Wednes­day, February 1st!  Showtimes: 3am, 9am, 3pm & 9pm EST.

About Rippa Jackson:

Rohan Thompson performs under the name Rippa Jackson and hails from Portmore which is, some say, Jamaica’s second capital city.

Initially finding and honing his vocal skills in church at the age of 10, he has gone on to perform with reggae stalwarts like Luciano, Capleton and Bushman to name a few; was instrumental in setting Jah Cure on his musical path and has collaborated with some of the biggest names in reggae music as well as being a staple on the local and international music scene. Sounds like a lot for one artist – not when you’re talking about Rippa. His music reaches the young and old and highlights his diversity whether he is singing roots and culture, lover’s rock or writing lyrics with stinging commentaries on everyday life. With a melodious baritone voice, he is not averse to reaching the higher octaves so that no two songs sound alike. He draws much of his inspiration from the natural elements around him when composing his music.

Rippa’s music is uplifting, conscious and inspiring, but most of all he wants the listener to take away the message – that the path to a fulfilling existence is to lead a spiritual and righteous life. One of his major goals is to dialogue with the younger generation through his music, but he doesn’t stop there, he is actively reaching out to the youths in his community and in addition to his music, runs a session at a New York community college where he had lead lively discussions on the meaning of Rastafari. 

About Heike Wollenweber:

Heike Wol­len­we­ber was born near Munich Ger­many where she attended pri­mary as well as high school. Heike con­tin­ued her edu­ca­tion with a degree from busi­ness school, a col­lege degree obtained in Lon­don, UK and a BA in Caribbean Stud­ies and Eng­lish from Lon­don met­ro­pol­i­tan Uni­ver­sity and Uni­ver­sity of the West Indies, Mona Cam­pus, Jamaica. Heike cur­rently resides in Kingston, Jamaica.

March 2009 marked the birth of yet another axe-s media chap­ter — All axe-s. All axe-s is a radio show intro­duc­ing the lat­est and best in reg­gae and dance­hall music and with a fea­ture artiste of the week and an in depth inter­view plus reg­gae news it gives the lis­ten­ers a dif­fer­ent access to the music. All axe-s started on more 94 fm in Nas­sau, Bahamas and has emerged as a pre­mier reg­gae pro­gramme. Artistes fea­tured on all axe-s so far were for exam­ple Serani, Queen Ifrica, Bee­nie Man, Charly Black, Busy Sig­nal, Tar­rus Riley and Chino.

In Jan­u­ary 2010 Heike relo­cated back to Kingston, Jamaica to be once again in the cen­ter of the reg­gae world and the music indus­try of Jamaica. She con­tin­ues to work with var­i­ous artistes as a pub­li­cist arrang­ing inter­na­tional media fea­tures, press releases, air play and video play work­ing with thou­sands of local and inter­na­tional jour­nal­ists, djs and media houses and her­self being fea­tured reg­u­larly on TV, the news­pa­pers, web­sites, mag­a­zines and music videos pro­mot­ing axe-s media as a brand.

In Feb­ru­ary 2010 all axe-s started to also run on RTC 107 fm, the Turks & Caicos ver­sion of the radio show, hosted by Heike.

Keep­ing busy as an indus­try insider, jour­nal­ist, radio per­son­al­ity, tv host Heike plans all axe-s tv to be launched in 2010 as well as some other ideas in the pipeline to be brought to life. Heike is def­i­nitely always on the go pro­mot­ing dance­hall and reg­gae to the world.

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