​A musical revolution rooted in love, forged in fire, ReBelle is
guided by devotion. Co-founded by Manou Africa and
Kalpana Devi, ReBelle weaves African liberation, Rasta
consciousness, and visionary feminine power into a soul-
stirring sonic force that transcends borders, languages, and
Genres..

 

Singing in Wolof, Creole, French and English, ReBelle’s
music is ceremony, protest, and celebration in one breath.
Their lyrics are prayers for justice. Their harmonies are
weapons of beauty. Their rhythms are rooted in the ancestral
drum, and their message is unwavering: Love for Humanity
and Gaia.

 

From village festivals in West Africa to sold-out U.S. venues
and global cultural convenings, ReBelle has shared stages
with reggae legends and spiritual giants. But their true power
lives in frequency.

 

This is sound as medicine. Music as activism. Art as
liberation technology.

 

Manou Africa and Kalpana Devi first met in 1994 and joined
creative forces composing, recording, performing, and
touring together across the U.S. and West Africa.

 

Conceived in love and rebellion, ReBelle features Kalpana
and Manou’s powerful voices chanting meditations on
liberation while instrumentals propel roots, reggae soul.
Their dynamic sound and stage presence is internationally
Acclaimed.

 

Manou is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer
whose musical calling is centered on Rastafari and African
liberation. His musical mission includes bringing forth
stories of sufferation, justice, love and triumph and bringing
these stories to the people.  

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Kalpana is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer
whose musical calling is centered on a Love for Humanity
movement. Her mission includes the power of unity
consciousness and unleashing a ferocity of visionary love.
She stands for earthwide liberation.

 

Kalpana began playing music as a child daily, growing up in a
musical family and in devotion to ancestral remembrance.
She was influenced by the power of African and Indigenous
music, radical folk and Jazz, social and environmental
justice movements and the teachings of Shrii Shrii
Anandamurti. Her first commission to compose came
through Yale University when she was 19 years old and from
there, she collaborated with and led multiple innovative
music and dance ensembles and projects including with
Wadada Leo Smith, Children of the Sun, Susumi Dance
Theater, Power of the Drum Ballet, AzaAshe and One Earth
DrumDance CO. Alongside her husband, Manou Africa, she
is co-founder of ReBelle. 

 

ReBelle has shared the stage with Skatalites, The Wailers,
Burning Spear, Culture, Little Richard, Toots and the Maytals,
Ijahman Levi, Israel Vibration, Sister Carol, Steel Pulse,
Meditations, Mykal Rose, Itals, The Marleys, Lucky Dube,
Yami Bolo, Midnite, Ras Iba, Tuff Lion, Ras Attitude, Batch,
Toussaint the Liberator, Kabaka Pyramid, Kenyatta Hill,
Andrew Tosh, Nattali Rize, Mike Love and many more. They
have performed at festivals and venues across the U.S. and
Africa including, The Parliament of World Religions
Convening in Chicago, Il, Baia Das Gatas in Cape Verde,
Reggae Sunsplash in Senegal, Blaise Senghor Institute in
Senegal, LEAF Festival, Harmonic Convergence,
International Festival of Arts and Ideas, SOB's, Fire Water
Festival, Bel Chere, Ziontific, Vermont Reggae Festival,
Ocean State Reggae, sell-out crowds at the Iron Horse Music
Hall, Pearl Street Night Club, The Roxy, House of Blues, New
England Reggae Festival, Guilford College, Warren Wilson,
Hampshire College, UMASS, Amherst College, Smith College
to name a few.  

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ReBelle also made the top 10 list in Reggae Report's, "Top 10
U.S.-Based Independent Albums". Their first album, "Thank
U Jah", came in at #5. They've regularly been voted best
reggae band and "Best World Music" by several popular polls
in their region, for the last 2 decades including Valley
Advocate best of and the 411 polls.

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Kalpana and Manou have created platforms for and
facilitated youth leadership and cultural activism and
exchanges in schools, colleges, and universities – mentoring
and counseling young people and families in their local,
regional and global communities.

 

What the critics are saying about ReBelle:
"powerful musicianship" - "warm, contemporary, vital" - "spell binding" - "powerhouse lead vocals"  "eclectic, contemporary, African roots interpretation crossing all borders" - "transcendent" - "intrinsic element of protest" - "new, intelligent, trail blazing music".