User:Noble Culture

Born Troy Bond on October 3rd 1965, Noble Culture began his musical awareness in the early 80s as a Hip Hop DJ before cassette tapes and DJ mixers, learning the art of record mixing and microphone control with 8 track tapes and 45s. He soon realized his talent for writing rap songs and began reciting them over break beats. For years he would team up with local producers/DJs and work on underground songs and albums.

As Noble Culture got older he began to expand and explore his talents and consciousness both musically and spiritually. It wasnt long before he began to notice the depth of his abilities and began to croon over old Coxtone Dodd Studio One, Scientist, King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry & Prince Jammy riddims. Everyone who heard his voice over these legendary riddims were in awe and simply could not believe he didnt have a published recording. He was inspired to write more in his hometown Norfolk Virginia where he had a store called The Lions Den. It was there where he met legendary guitar player Tuff Lion who was at the time playing guitar for Bambu Station. And this ultimately lead to the 2005 release of Talking Roots II which featured the timeless hit, track number 13, Haile I Selassie I, which of course prompted the debut 2006 release of Lions Den Adversity under the name Black Culture. Though trivial, his Culture has indeed been a Noble one and change and adjustment to the times has been theme of his path.

Working on his second U.S. album release, singer-songwriter Noble Culture (who formally went by the name Black Culture) remains tantalized by the mysteries and marvels conscious music, filling his work with images, both precise and poetic, of the spiritual and the physical world. But he digs even deeper and goes further into the vagaries of human nature, transforming the turbulence of his own life, as well as his concerns about the status and nationality of his people and the state of the world at large, into a collection of songs distinguished as much by their spiritual and emotional urgency as by their often astonishing musical inventiveness.

His 2006 release Lions Den Adversity with Bambu Station received enormous recognition causing huge ripples in the pond of roots reggae music, showing the gentler, but no less controversial poetic side of this extraordinary singer-songwriter. As a performer Noble Culture (then Black Culture) toured with Bambu Station until late 2006 when he decided to form his own band The Lions Den. He faced challenges learning the difficulties a reggae band encounters trying to make it as notable reggae band internationally. Noble Culture (then Black Culture) met a talented band named Session Rockers from his home state Virginia where they and the talented singer seemed to have just the right chemistry and immediately created original reggae roots masterpieces that kept local audiences always wanting more from this musical phenomenon.

They went on to perform together for almost 3 years until Noble Culture (still then Black Culture) moved to the west coast of the United States looking for a better quality of life. It was there he began to understand the deeper meaning of his journey. Currently(2013) the unreleased album "Let There Be Light" scheduled to be released in 2014 with musicians like the legendary Tuff Lion, Macasea from The Roots Radics band, Kenyatta Itola from the original Midnite band and Walker Pillow from Session Rockers is already deemed by fellow musicians as one of the greatest roots reggae albums of this era for the roots reggae singer/songwriter/producer now known as Noble Culture.

The world is looking forward to hearing what Noble Culture has to say...