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Burning Spear
For the Florida State University society, see Burning Spear Society.
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Burning Spear live at Reggae Geel, Belgium, in 2023 | |
| Birth name | Winston Rodney |
| Born | (1945-03-01) 1 March 1945 (age 79) Saint Ann's Bay, Saint Ann, Jamaica |
| Genres | Reggae, roots reggae, dub |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Labels | Studio One, Island, EMI, Heartbeat, Slash/Warner Bros., Burning Music |
| Website | www.burningspearwebsite.com |
Musical artist
Winston RodneyOD (born 1 March 1945), better known by the stage name Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist, and musician. Burning Spear is a Rastafarian and one of the most influential and long-standing roots artists to emerge from the 1970s.[1][2]
Early life
Winston Rodney was born in Saint Ann's Bay, Saint Ann, Jamaica. He is married to Sonia Rodney. As a young man he listened to the R&B, soul and jazz music transmitted by the US radio stations whose broadcasts reached Jamaica. Curtis Mayfield is cited by Rodney as a major US mu
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About nowadays music
In the 2005 interview. Winston was asked what he thought about the rise of roots music that was more popular at the time than Dancehall. He said that it was natural for the original musical genre, which is certainly the roots of reggae, to be more popular than the Dancehall sub-genre. But after that interview in the next few years, just like the only reggae festival in our area at the time, the “Echo Festival” (Serbia), the roots music plummeted and the musical taste of the new generation ‘evolved’ into Dancehall music, a music that has more of those pop elements and content related to the material world, as opposed to the spiritual and revolutionary from the roots. But what Winston says, is that the priorities of ‘modern’ musicians are different, that it’s an evolution just like the one that followed when he started his career in 1969.
When he started with music, musicians from that time did not think about money, but how they could play and sing. And then something would grow out of it. But the new generations don’t really have the ‘
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Burning Spear
Reggae artist
Garvey’s Ghost
Life after Marley
Giving Thanks and Growing
Selected discography
Sources
Burning Spear— born Winston Rodney in 1945 in St. Ann’s, Jamaica— easily shares the title “The Father of Reggae” with his musical contemporary Bob Marley. Since 1968, Spear’s music has defined the genre of “roots reggae,” which emphasizes Jamaica’s historical links to Africa, the self-determination teachings of black nationalist Marcus Garvey, and black consciousness themes. Spear’s resonant voice and hard driving drum-beat and bass lines create a hypnotic sound that lulls the listener and enhances the message of his lyrics. On his 1991 album, Jah Kingdom, he sings the praises of black leaders Garvey, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela, often delving into historical analyses of Western revisionist history; his acclaimed Hail H.I.M features the song “Columbus,” which clearly dismisses the notion that Columbus “discovered” Jamaica,
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