Arawak B

With his nonchalant Island vibe and thoughtful nature, Arawak B is a sort of renegade when compared to today’s music scene. Abandoning worship of material and excess, his music is rooted in a deep appreciation for both life and beauty. For someone who started as a young poet and painter, born and raised in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica, he's come a long way to become the artist he is today.

Creating under no set mold of what music should be, Arawak B has carved himself out an artistic path that is akin to none before him. While working within the traditional sounds of reggae music and the general message that the genre brings to the table, his ability to convey both stories and messages in his music breaks from the norm and transcends the genre itself. Always original and a talented improviser, Arawak B never ceases to impress and inspire.

His name comes from the Arawak indian tribe, the original inhabitants of Jamaica and part of the cultural mosaic from which he is descended. For those unfamiliar with the plight of the Arawak people, they were a peaceful society with no known word for the concept of death and with highly generous hearts. Real name Ron Bent, Arawak B is also a descendant of William Bent, of the historic Bent’s Fort in Colorado. During a time of unease with the Native Americans, William Bent, a white man, married into the Cheyenne tribe by marrying Owl Woman, and worked to maintain peace and trade between the natives and the settlers.