I-Maroon asks forgiveness for bleaching

Rastafarian reggae singer I-Maroon said he has sought forgiveness from Haile Selassie for bleaching his skin a few years ago and is back to being a fully black man.

"Mi get back mi melanin and mi black skin is everything. Skin bleaching was just a minute and it was a little hype because bleaching did in. Dem say yuh can't say Rastafari and Haile Selassie I and bleach because him will bun mi out for dat. If a suh, mi ask Jah to forgive mi because no one nuh suppose to bleach out dem melanin. Mi comfortable with mi black skin now and dis is what the people wah see," he said.

Back in his conscious era, I-Maroon said he is putting final touches to an upcoming, yet to be titled album.

"Mi just a continue doing what mi love and that is music. Right now mi a work on an album soon to be released. About 17 tracks ago deh pon it and mi know the fans dem ago love it," the entertainer said.

He said that he released a singled over the weekend and "mi know it ago be one a the biggest song Jamaica ago see or hear".

"It name Nuh king nuh high like Selassie. Yuh have lot of kings weh rise up but none a dem nuh high like Him. Di people dem ago love it because it conscious and a talk about truth. A lot of artistes fraid to sing about dem ting ya but mi sing it," I-Maroon said.

I-Maroon, who hails from Elderslie, a stone's throw from Accompong Town in St Elizabeth, is known for songs such as Mi Salt, and Give The Children The Love They Deserve.