Burning Spear ~ Similar Artists
Steel Pulse
- 82% match to Burning Spear
Probably the UK's most highly regarded roots reggae outfit, Steel Pulse originally formed at Handsworth School, Birmingham, and comprised David Hinds (lead vocals, guitar), Basil Gabbidon (lead guitar, vocals) and Ronnie McQueen (bass). However, it is Hinds who, as songwriter,...
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Black Uhuru
- 76% match to Burning Spear
Formed in Jamaica by Rudolph "Garth" Dennis, Derrick "Duckie" Simpson (24 June 1950) and Euvin "Don Carlos" Spencer in 1974, Black Uhuru first recorded a version of Curtis Mayfield's "Romancing To The Folk Song" for Dynamic's Top Cat label as Uhuru (the Swahili word for...
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Gregory Isaacs
- 74% match to Burning Spear
15 July 1950, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Reggae superstar Gregory Isaacs has seldom looked back during a career that has gone from strength to strength, and while many rock stars like to toy with an "outlaw" image, Isaacs is the real thing - the ultimate rude boy reggae...
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Dennis Brown
- 73% match to Burning Spear
Dennis Emanuel Brown, 1 February 1957, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, d. 1 July 1999, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Regularly billed as "the Crown Prince of Reggae", it was only Brown's self-effacing nature that denied him advancement to the office of king. Loved in reggae...
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30 April 1964, Clarendon, Jamaica, West Indies. Barrington Levy was one of the first singers to challenge the dominance of DJs in 80s dancehall reggae, although his earliest recording, under the name of the Mighty Multitude ("My Black Girl" in 1977), predated that era. Another...
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Peter Tosh
- 65% match to Burning Spear
Winston Hubert McIntosh, 19 October 1944, Grange Hill, Westmoreland, Jamaica, West Indies, d. 11 September 1987, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Of all the reggae singers from the mid-60s, no-one else "came on strong" like Peter Tosh, who declared it so on his anthem, "I'm The...
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