Winston "Burning Spear" Rooney

Winston BURNING SPEAR Rodney takes his sobriquet from the revolutionary name of Jomo Kenyatta. “The Spear” was born and raised in St.Anne’s Bay, birthplace of Marcus Garvey, the Restafarian prophet and leader of the Back to Africa movement. Considered the leading “roots” vocalist in Jamaica, Spear creates songs that vividly express the effects of slavery, colonialism and rural poverty. In ROCKERS, his acapella performance of “Jah No Dead,” composed especially for the movie, was filmed on the ruins of Jamaica’s first colonial jailhouse.