“Reggae legend Burning Spear is one of the longest-lasting, hardest-touring performers in any genre.
The singer – born Winston Rodney – has been performing regularly for more than three decades, rarely taking more than a few months off the road.
“I kind of slow it down now, for I’m not young like before,” Burning Spear told Pollstar on the eve of his new album’s release. “Got to take it easy, you know?”
Taking it easy is a relative term, and for Burning Spear, it doesn’t mean sitting still…

…Though he runs his own record company and continues to mount at least one nationwide tour per year, Burning Spear insists he’s moving at a relaxed pace.
“I’m takin’ it easy,” he said. "I’m in my pre-retirement right now; I’m just slowing it down, you know?
“[I may retire in] a couple more years; I myself don’t even know. I know when the time is right, I’m going to feel it, and then I will just say it, in public, that this is it.
“But for now, I’m just going with the flow, within this pre-retirement stage.” —pollstar.com