Burning Spear lands on our shores midweek
Bob Marley once said one thing good about reggae music is when it hits you, you feel no pain, so October 18 Zim reggae lovers expect a 'painless' knock-out!
Harare -ONE thing good about reggae music is when it hits you, you feel no pain!
In that breadth, Zimbabwe is set to be hit hard by one of the roots reggae music collosus Winston Rodney better known by his moniker Burning Spear.
The Grammy award winning artiste touches down at the Robert Mugabe International airport Wednesday for a live performance slated for October 18 at Glamis arena in the capital.
He has a decorated career spanning over 50 years accompanied with a soulful reggae music discography – strong to the bone!
The relationship between Zimbabwe ‘s fight for Independence is intertwined with reggae music and it became a powerful emblem of fighting colonialism.
The late Bob Marley even graced the country’s Uhuru day and the likes of Thomas Mapfumo’s Chimurenga music has an evident tincture of reggae music in instrumentation and lyrical content of resistance to the ‘Babylon system’
Patrick Chakaipa wrote a novel titled ‘Pfumo Reropa’ and that can be loosely translated to ‘burning and bloody spear’, so reggae afficianados must expect a hot performance from the Jamaican star in an enviroment where tempratures are already high as reported by the Met Department!
Burning Spear’s music resonates with the older generation with hits like ‘Marcus Garvey , ‘Man in the Hills’,No Destroyer ‘ among others and even the young and concious ghetto youths can appreciate the pregnancy of the lyrics vis-a-vis emancipation of mental slavery and need to use the microphone to fight and challenge injustice.
Organisers Friends of Jamaica and Sound System Club said the legend arrivesvatc16.20 and proceed to Cresta Lodge for a press conference before radio interviews.
Tickets are available at MedOrange Pharmacies.
Supporting acts include Transit Crew,Mannex Motsi and Feli Nandi..
Reggae music again, let it play!
