Burning Spear
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"Winston Rodney" Order of Distinction/OD, better known by the stage name "Burning Spear", is a Jamaican roots reggae/roots reggae singer and musician. Burning Spear is a Rastafari movement/Rastafarian and one of the most influential and long-standing roots artists to emerge from the 1970s.

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When you can present something to the people wherein the people don't think that something like that can be presented to them, it's very strong.

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

Our music/they think that we lose it.

We plan to do other things for this place which we know everyone will appreciate.

[When he played the first show,] it was very exciting as an artist. I'd always heard about Red Rocks. I didn't know there was a place that looked like that, ... I have to lift my cap to Bill. I don't know if anyone else can do what Bill does.

Students have to be taught about everything. So therefore the knowledge of the students would develop around and about everything.

It's a good thing and it's actually the second time that I'll be there. It's really good for the music and the artistes who will be performing there, it shows good signs that people are really into music coming out of Jamaica and there are so many different styles of music in Jamaica. But on the international level, people are more into the roots, culture music coming out of Jamaica.