Burning Spear Burning Sound Six , All about the people and The Music, The Sound Six with unreleased Tracks. Copyright Burning Spear 2015 . Keep The Spear Burning One Love, Peace.
Copyright Burning Spear 2015
Burning Spear Burning Sound Six , All about the people and The Music, The Sound Six with unreleased Tracks. Copyright Burning Spear 2015 . Keep The Spear Burning One Love, Peace.
Copyright Burning Spear 2015
A music-maker, community icon, educator, spiritual uplifter; Burning Spear's importance to culture existed before media spotlight, and has only grown since.
For nearly four decades and more than 25 albums, he has carried the torch of the gospel of political activist Marcus Garvey, promoting self-determination and self-reliance for African descendants through lyrics and rhythms that truly deliver the messages of peace and love to all.
Not surprisingly, Burning Spear's path in music began with a fateful encounter with Bob Marley. Both were living in the St. Ann's parish of Jamaica. As Spear (born Winston Rodney) recalls, "The way the whole thing came about is that I found myself moving along up in the hills of St. Ann's and I ran into Bob at the same time. And Bob was going to his farm. The man was moving with a donkey and some buckets and a fork, and cutlass and plants. We just reason man-to-man and I-man say wherein I would like to get involved in the music business. And Bob say, ‘All right, just check Studio One.'" It was there Spear recorded his first two classic albums, Burning Spear and Rocking Time.
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Burning Spear, nativo come Bob Marley e Marcus Garvey della St. Ann's Bay, è considerato uno degli artefici del reggae. Come molti altri artisti reggae, Burning Spear è noto per i suoi messaggi a favore del movimento rastafariano.
Il suo stile vocale è inconfondibile, aggiungendo ai lamenti un pizzico di malinconia in quasi tutte le sue canzoni.
Burning Spear (Lancia Fiammeggiante) che ha preso in prestito il nome di battaglia da Jomo Kenyatta, leader dell'indipendenza del Kenya, esordisce nel 1969 con il singolo Door Peeper, prodotto da Coxsone Dodd.
Winston Rodney crede nella funzione di proselitismo religioso, e di riscatto sociale della musica reggae. La collaborazione con Dodd è durata fino al 1974, e il risultato è stato raccolto nei due album Studio One present Burning Spear (Studio One, 1973) e Rocking time (Studio One, 1974).
A seguito del suo contributo alla musica reggae, il 15 ottobre 2007 è stato insignito del grado di Ufficiale dell'Ordine di Distinzione, quinto più alto riconoscimento civico giamaicano.
Fonte Wikipedia