Pablo Henry, better known by his artistic name PABLO MOSES, can be considered one of the most important roots reggae musicians from Jamaica. He entered the market in 1975 with his great hit "I Man a Grasshopper", from his first album "Revolutionary Dream" (released in the United States as "I LOVE I BRING"). Moses articulated his Rastafari ideology with unprecedented political overtones in a surefire release: brass tones with rhythms overflowing in the voice and harmonies laid down by producer and keyboardist Geoffrey Chung, with whom he worked at the Mango label. "A Song" was a sudden response to the fire of his debut effort. In 1981, Pablo Moses released his 3rd album, "PAVE THE WAY".
Moses then achieved enormous success in Jamaica, Europe, North America and Japan. Moses's Rastafarian themes, his crusade against injustice, inequality, racism, wars, the destruction of nature — in short, universal problems in his space. In 1983, Moses signed with Allygator Records to release "IN THE FUTURE", amplifying his political and social message with Rockers style and the use of synthesizer and vocoder electronic instrumentation. Moses expanded and deepened his sound and rhetoric with "TENSION" from 1985 and "LIVE TO LOVE" from 1987. "WE REFUSE" came shortly after.
Pablo Moses's debut album and the subsequent ones are a response and a protest to the political climate of the 80s, seen as "good times" by some politicians, ignoring the underlying realities of poverty and racism. Pablo Moses says: "On this album I say what I have been saying all along, only in a modified mode, more direct. I refuse the Babylonian ways of society, senseless attitudes. Jah has made everyone with different cultures and colors of the most varied kinds, yet fair, as He made different types of birds and plants to beautify life even more..."