DADDY ROOTS aka ZKING OF HEARTS
Daddy Roots
(AKA)
ZKing of Hearts
Daddy Roots hails from the tiny but gorgeous island of Anguilla, British West Indies.
Daddy Roots' religion is love and his reaction to anger and hatred is to walk away with love in his heart and a smile on his face. Daddy Roots believes that around the corner of depression lies hope and his songs titles including "Love And Honor", "I Am At Peace With Myself", "Walk Away From War", “ Happiness” and "Moving On" express his philosophy of peace and harmony for everyone.
2002-2005 TOURING: In 2002, Daddy Roots embarked on his first North American tour with his first album “Love and Honor” spreading his message of love, honor and respect. Radio deejays loved him when they saw him performed live and Daddy Roots was invited back by promoters again to tour the festival, club and college circuit later that year and for 2003-2004. Some tour highlights included festival appearances at Indiana's Kneadmore Reggae with Toots and the Maytals, John Brown Body and headlining Kalamazoo, Michigan's Island Fest. Daddy Roots also perform and record in the Caribbeans; in Anguilla on a regular basis as well as in St. Martin for their cultural and Bob Marley festivals in between his overseas tours.
In 2005, Daddy Roots went to Ghana, Africa upon the invitation of Panafest to perform at their Emancipation Day as well as on a “MAMA AFRICA AKWAABA (welcomes) DADDY ROOTS“ tour to surrounding beaches and villages. He also appeared for interviews and performed in several TV programs like Music, Music; Metro TV and radio shows.
Daddy Roots did a mini tour in Asia and Eastern Europe including Malaysia and Nepal for their Festival of Lights Holidays and at the Zagreb Reggae Festival in Croatia.
TV and FILM CONTRIBUTION AND APPEARENCES: You can see Daddy Roots in two international television appearances including Travel Channel's "Best Beaches 2005" segment and NBC's "Today Show special on Anguilla".
In 2005 Daddy Roots' song, "Magar Goat", was in the movie "Broken Flowers" starring Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Sharon Stone and Jessica Lange, a major film produced by Focus Features. “ Magar Goat” was also used in a Canadian TV Lifetime Movie “Fugitive”. He also has a song, "It's All Good" on the soundtrack of "Rastafarian Dreaming" documentary, an independent film produced in Toronto, Canada and shown around in Reggae Festivals in the United States.
ALBUMS:
2001 “Two Sides of Love-Chapter One”;
2002 “Love and Honor”;
2003 “All Here Now”.
2007 :Happiness (is in your heart)"
2006-Daddy Roots won BEST REGGAE VOCALIST 2006 at the 16th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards held at the Music Box, Hollywood, where Gwen Stefani and Black Eye Peas got one of their earlier awards from.
2007- HAPPINESS - ZKing of Hearts just completed a new cutting-edge album featuring the likes of Wailers/Steel Pulse producer Karl Pitterson, St. Maarten producer Connis Vanterpool and West Coast deejay/producer extraordinaire Peter "Peas" McEvilley.
Contact info: ping@zkingofhearts.com or zkingofhearts@yahoo.com : USA # 1-310-500-2288