Burning Spear has never taken credit for inventing roots-reggae music. Yet today he’s considered the archetype for that subgenre, which saw its heyday in the mid- to late ’70s. In fact, it was Burning ...

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In 1969, upstart reggae singer Bob Marley introduced a friend from his hometown to one of Jamaica's top record producers. The friend's name was Winston Rodney, but the world would soon know him as ...

Reggae artist Burning Spear (a.k.a. Winston Rodney) says his musical career started to take off when he ran into a young Bob Marley in a field in Jamaica. Marley told him to head over to the Studio ...

Thirty-five years in the music business have taught Burning Spear that taking care of his own business is good business. The reggae legend (a.k.a. Winston Rodney) claims that he’s never seen any ...

Jamaican singer and songwriter Winston Rodney, a.k.a. Burning Spear, did some of the best roots reggae of the Seventies (we hipsters called it simply “reggae” back then), loaded with Rastafarian anger ...