Rascalimu

Carlos Alidu Mumuni, known as Rascalimu, is a Ghanaian-born American reggae musician from Tamale. His albums include Reggae Revolution (2002) and African Child (2010).

Early life

He was born in Tamale in northern Ghana and started studying music at eight, often gathering his younger brothers to play home-made instruments and learn songs from the radio. He attended Tumu Secondary School and graduated in June 1984 on a scholarship.

Career

Work took him to North Africa and Europe, where meeting local musicians convinced him to pursue music seriously. From 1987 he travelled through North Africa and Malaysia to Taipei, Taiwan, where he worked for two years from 1989 and joined an Australian reggae group as lead vocalist and percussionist. He later settled in the United States, where his first album, Reggae Revolution, came out in autumn 2002, followed by African Child in 2010.