‘Poe’werful: Poe has recorded 10 reggae albums and suggests that he may continue recording and releasing more in the near future.
Reggae is not a crime. Poe (Fauzi Ahmad), who made a name recording reggae solo albums and as the lead singer of live-outfits Nonama and Reggae Malaya, is still fighting the battle to get that freewheeling type of music accepted.
“Reggae is misunderstood. It’s always linked with marijuana. There’s a lot of depth to it that people don’t get. For instance Bob Marley’s No Woman, No Cry is a song about poverty which really means ‘don’t cry, woman’,” he said.
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