Burning Spear music is among the great reggae category of musical pieces which is well known across the Diaspora. He promotes peace, unity and harmony in his tracks and has done several classic albums since he started music. Rodney teaches the youths and reggae fans about the righteous ways. He fights for equality and encourages the Africans to maintain their culture and not be deceived. He feature heroes like Marcus Garvey in his tracks for they fought for the rights of the blacks.
Winston musical career began in the late 1960s when he met with Coxsone Dodds at a studio with the help of the great reggae legend Bob Marley. Him and Rupert Willington recorded their first three tracks and named them Door peep. Another artist named Delroy joined their group immediately after the album gained popularity.
The lines in his music are full of emotions as they talk about oppression of the poor. He encourages people to have self reliance and determination as the key characteristics. His tracks have a sense of holiness and dwell so much on cultural themes thereby passing good morals to all who listen his music.
Both the slavery days and Marcus Garvey tracks were released after spear and his band members joined forces with producer Jack Ruby. A full album by the name Marcus Garvey was later released and it turned out to be the highly rated that Jamaica has ever released. Later Rodney joined the island label and continued with his career.
In order to maintain his position in the music industry, he set up an own label with his name and debuted it with the single Traveling. Two more singles named Spear Burning and The Youth quickly followed. In the 1970s, Man in the Hills was released and it emphasized more on the rural themes.
Rodney parted ways with the other two members of the band. When releasing the song called Dry and Heavy, he had no company. He merged his label to another known one known as EMI. It was after the merging that he did H. I. M. At the very first studio where he had began. He then started singing songs that were not cultural oriented. Here, he did a song that he named She is mine.
Resistance was preceded by fittest of the fittest and was voted for the Grammy Awards. People of the world was a song done after he had signed another recording contract with Independent Slash brand. It did well and received the nomination as well. During the late eighties, the song titled Mistress was completed. This particular one never did well in the market because it was poorly produced. This was countered by another album called Live Paris in the same year.
After a European tour, Winston returned to the island label and did a wonderful track there by the name Mek We Dweet. Rodney is now well known internationally as a roots reggae producer for he has done great tracks which have earned him popularity to reggae fans. All Burning Spear music talk about real life experiences and he communicates to people through them.
Winston musical career began in the late 1960s when he met with Coxsone Dodds at a studio with the help of the great reggae legend Bob Marley. Him and Rupert Willington recorded their first three tracks and named them Door peep. Another artist named Delroy joined their group immediately after the album gained popularity.
The lines in his music are full of emotions as they talk about oppression of the poor. He encourages people to have self reliance and determination as the key characteristics. His tracks have a sense of holiness and dwell so much on cultural themes thereby passing good morals to all who listen his music.
Both the slavery days and Marcus Garvey tracks were released after spear and his band members joined forces with producer Jack Ruby. A full album by the name Marcus Garvey was later released and it turned out to be the highly rated that Jamaica has ever released. Later Rodney joined the island label and continued with his career.
In order to maintain his position in the music industry, he set up an own label with his name and debuted it with the single Traveling. Two more singles named Spear Burning and The Youth quickly followed. In the 1970s, Man in the Hills was released and it emphasized more on the rural themes.
Rodney parted ways with the other two members of the band. When releasing the song called Dry and Heavy, he had no company. He merged his label to another known one known as EMI. It was after the merging that he did H. I. M. At the very first studio where he had began. He then started singing songs that were not cultural oriented. Here, he did a song that he named She is mine.
Resistance was preceded by fittest of the fittest and was voted for the Grammy Awards. People of the world was a song done after he had signed another recording contract with Independent Slash brand. It did well and received the nomination as well. During the late eighties, the song titled Mistress was completed. This particular one never did well in the market because it was poorly produced. This was countered by another album called Live Paris in the same year.
After a European tour, Winston returned to the island label and did a wonderful track there by the name Mek We Dweet. Rodney is now well known internationally as a roots reggae producer for he has done great tracks which have earned him popularity to reggae fans. All Burning Spear music talk about real life experiences and he communicates to people through them.
