Show the picture of the handsome, smiling football player with the close-cropped hair and clean shaven face to most any fan, friend, or acquaintance of local roots reggae artist Ben Hunter. Then mention that the football player and Hunter is one and the same person. Witness the disbelief.

How can this athlete with the shaved head be Ben Hunter, who sports a decade’s worth of dreadlocks that erupt from his scalp and cascade down his back?

How can the man who sings plaintively in Cafe Bra...