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 ...

That reggae has become an international force is one of the more unlikely musical happenings of the last half-century.The music came not only from the tiny, Third World island of Jamaica, whose ...

Two-time Grammy winner Burning Spear, the renowned Jamaican roots reggae singer-songwriter, is coming to the Vilar Performing Arts Center on June 5 to spread his message of love and peace through ...

The past two years have been tough ones for fans of classic reggae. Pioneers Bunny Wailer, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Toots Hibbert, and U-Roy all passed away, leaving few actively performing artists from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “All in the same boat, rockin’ on the same rock,” Bob Marley sang on the Wailers’ 1971 classic “Don’t Rock My Boat.” Produced by ...

If Bob Marley is the "King of Reggae," then next in that royal lineage is Winston Rodney -- known internationally as Burning Spear. Marley and Rodney met as young musicians in the late 1960s, and ...

“Our music / they think that we lose it,” sings Burning Spear in the opening line on his CD, “Our Music,” released on Tuesday. Coming from Burning Spear, this idea of “losing our music” could have any ...

Burning Spear, the legendary Jamaican roots-reggae, singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician, and one of the most influential and long-standing roots artists, will perform live at the TD Pavilion at ...

At 78, Burning Spear is still performing. Fans turned out to see him live in Spain at the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival in June and the Rototom Sunsplash in August. Only days before Rototom he ...

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 ...

September 22, 2008 • Reggae music has gone a lot of places over the years, from minimalist dub to culture-warring dancehall. Almost 40 years on, Spear still hews to the reggae basics: a deep, easy ...