Biography

**Name**: Tefkemet (often stylized as *TEFKEMET*)
**Real Name**: Tef
**Origin**: Brooklyn, NY (Parents from Trinidad and Tobago)
**Genre**: Roots Reggae, Afrobeat fusion, Soca, Latin
**Label**: TefkemetMusic
**Active Since**: Early 2000s

### **Musical Style**
Tefkemet blends traditional roots reggae with Afrobeat rhythms, incorporating Nyabinghi drumming and lyrics in both Jamaican and Trinidad Patois ( languages). His music emphasizes themes of **Pan-African unity**, **spiritual awakening**, and **social justice**.   

### **Key Tracks**
1. *"OutsideCold"* (2020) – A call for African diaspora solidarity through the Covid19 pandemic.
2. *"Call on di MostHigh"* (2020) – A modern take on the classic, critiquing systemic inequality.
3. *"God in we life "* (2022) – Collaborates with Da Prophet Tishamba-X.   

### **Public Persona**
- Known for performances in traditional white cloth and Rastafarian colors.
- Advocates for **reparations** and **climate justice** in the Caribbean.
- Rarely grants interviews; communicates primarily through music and social media symbolism.  

### **Controversies**
- Briefly detained in 2010 during protests in Greensboro North Carolina. Members of the Spirit of the Sit-in Movement Initiative took over Greensboro City Council seats on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 to stand against a subculture of corruption within the Greensboro Police Department and the City's inaction on the issue..  

- Criticized by conservative groups for lyrics challenging political corruption.   

### **Affiliations**
- Member of the *The Ethiopian World Federation*, EST 1937 Harlem NY a grassroots group. 

 - Collaborates with Trinidadian Soca artist MonnayVa
- Collaborates with Jamaican Dancehall artist like Terry Linen, Wippa Demus, Ikonji, RasKimani to name a few
- Collaborates with Virgin Island artist like Da Prophet Tishamba-X & Lion Brimstone
- Collaborates with Nigerian Afrobeat artists like Ajaeze 

### **Current Status**
Reportedly working on an Producing his third reggae album, rumored for release in late 2025.
Soon to release a power conscious reggae single entitled
" Forward "