Professional surfer and reggae-rock artist Makua Rothman sat down with The Pier at Reggae on the Mountain to discuss his long-awaited new album, the direction of the new music, his epic webseries MAKUALOHA, and what it was like to go viral when TMZ covered his record-setting 100-Foot Wave.
Watch the full Makua Rothman interview below!
Makua Rothman was born on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii and started surfing at the age of two years old. At the age of 18, Rothman surfed a 66-foot wave, the largest wave, known at the time, to be surfed world-wide. Later, Rothman went on to win the 2002 Billabong XXL Big Wave Challenge Award in a historic big-wave session, became the 2007 World Cup Surfing champion, and the 2015 World Surf League Big Wave Championship. He is an accomplished musician who is finishing up his sophomore release, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed album Sound Wave.
Interview by James Wright and Roxanne Chevalier
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