This is a list of reggae musicians

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

. This includes artists who have either been very important to the genre, or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as in the case of one that has been on a major label, but not limited to such). Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name.

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• The Abyssinians
  The Abyssinians
  The Abyssinians are a Jamaican roots reggae group, famous for their close harmonies and promotion of the Rastafari movement in their lyrics.-History:...
  
  
• The Aces
  The Aces (Jamaican group)
  The Aces, initially known as The Four Aces were a Jamaican vocal group who are best known for their work with Desmond Dekker, but who also recorded without him.-History:...
  
  
• Glen Adams
  Glen Adams
  Glen Adams was a Jamaican musician, composer, arranger, engineer, producer, based since the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, New York.-Career:...
  
  
• Admiral T
  Admiral T
  Admiral T, whose real name is Christy Campbell, is a French singer of reggae-dancehall music. Besides Francky Vincent, he is one of most popular and successful Guadeloupean singers.He is also a designer and the creator of WOK LINE.-Biography:...
  
  
• Yasus Afari
  Yasus Afari
  Yasus Afari is a Jamaican dub poet.-Biography:Sinclair was a childhood friend of Garnett Silk and collaborated with Silk on many of his best-selling recordings. He attended St...
  
  
• African Brothers
• The Aggrovators
  The Aggrovators
  The Aggrovators were a dub/reggae backing band in the 1970s & 1980s, and one of the main session bands of producer, Bunny Lee. The line-up varied, with Lee using the name for whichever set of musicians he was using at any time. The band's name derived from the record shop that Lee had run in the...
  
  
• Aisha
  Aisha (reggae singer)
  Aisha, sometimes Sister Aisha is a roots reggae singer.-Biography:Aisha's father ran a sound system and she began singing at the age of eight, building up a strong local following before beginning her recording career...
  
  
• Bobby Aitken
  Bobby Aitken
  Bobby Aitken IS a Cuban-born Jamaican guitarist and singer who had a string of hits in Jamaica in the 1960s and led the band The Carib Beats.-Biography:Aitken is the brother of Laurel Aitken, and recorded in the early 1960s for producer King Edwards...
  
  
• Laurel Aitken
  Laurel Aitken
  Lorenzo Aitken , better known as Laurel Aitken, was a singer and one of the originators of Jamaican ska music. He is often referred to as the "Godfather of ska".-Career:...
  
  
• Alaine
• Alborosie
  Alborosie
  Alberto D'Ascola , better known by his stage name Alborosie, is an Italian reggae artist. Born and raised in Marsala, Sicily, Italy, but now residing in Kingston, Jamaica. He is a multi-instrumentalist, being proficient in guitar, bass, drums and keyboard...
  
  
• Dennis Alcapone
  Dennis Alcapone
  Dennis Alcapone is a reggae DJ and producer.-Career:Smith initially trained as a welder and worked for the Jamaica Public Services...
  
  
• Alpha & Omega
  Alpha & Omega (band)
  Alpha And Omega are a roots dub duo that mix both analogue and digital elements, comprising bassist Christine Woodbridge and keyboard player John Sprosen, both of whom had played in reggae bands previously, Sprosen also having worked with the Roaring Lion Sound System...
  
  
• Roland Alphonso
  Roland Alphonso
  Roland Alphonso O.D. or Rolando Alphonso aka The Chief Musician was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist, and one of the founding members of The Skatalites....
  
  
• Althea & Donna
  Althea & Donna
  Althea & Donna were a Jamaican reggae singing duo, best known for their 1977 single "Uptown Top Ranking" which was a number one hit in the United Kingdom in 1978.-Career:...
  
  
• Al Anderson
• Lynford Anderson
  Lynford Anderson
  Lynford Anderson aka Andy Capp is a Jamaican studio engineer, producer, and vocalist, best known for his 1968 hit "Pop a Top".-Biography:...
  
   aka 'Andy Capp'
• Bob Andy
  Bob Andy
  Bob Andy is a Jamaican reggae vocalist and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of reggae's most influential songwriters.-Career:...
  
  
• Horace Andy
  Horace Andy
  Horace Andy is a roots reggae songwriter and singer, known for his distinctive vocals and hit songs such as "Government Land", "Angel", "Five Man Army" and a cover version of "Ain't No Sunshine"....
  
  
• Mike Anthony
  Mike Anthony (singer)
  Mike Anthony is a British lovers rock singer, who began his career in the late 1980s.-History:Anthony's early recordings were produced by Barry Boom, and he had a reggae top ten hit with "Crash Crash", which was followed by further successes with "Glide Gently", "Cruising in Love", and "Open Your...
  
  
• Patrick Andy
  Patrick Andy
  Patrick Andy is a reggae singer, whose stage name is a reference to his similarity to the older reggae singer Horace Andy.-Biography:...
  
  
• Anthony B
  Anthony B
  Anthony B is the stage name of Keith Blair , a Jamaican musician and member of the Rastafari movement....
  
  
• Apache Indian
• Aswad
• Audio Active
  Audio Active
  Audio Active were a Japanese reggae band who released several albums between the mid-1990s and the early first decade of the 21st century.-History:...
  
  
• Aura Lewis
  Aura Lewis
  Aura Lewis is a singer who worked with Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff and recorded an album with Lee "Scratch" Perry in the late 1970s.-Early life and career:...
  
  

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• Baba Brooks
• Baby Cham
• Baby Wayne
  Baby Wayne
  Baby Wayne , born Wayne Parkinson, was a Jamaican dancehall artist known for his conscientious lyrics.-Biography:Parkinson was born in 1968 in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica...
  
  
• Admiral Bailey
  Admiral Bailey
  Admiral Bailey is a Jamaican dancehall deejay who enjoyed his greatest success between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. He has been described as "the hottest dancehall star of the late 1980s".-Career:...
  
  
• Buju Banton
  Buju Banton
  Buju Banton is a Jamaican dancehall, ragga, and reggae musician.Banton has recorded pop and dance songs, as well as songs dealing with sociopolitical topics....
  
  
• Burro Banton
  Burro Banton
  Burro Banton is a dancehall reggae deejay popular in the mid-1980s and 1990s....
  
  
• Mega Banton
  Mega Banton
  Mega Banton is a Jamaican dancehall deejay who came to prominence in the early 1990s.-Biography:Williams was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1973...
  
  
• Pato Banton
  Pato Banton
  Pato Banton is a reggae singer and toaster from Birmingham, England. He received the nickname 'Pato' from his stepfather, and 'Banton' from the disc jockey slang for a "heavyweight DJ".-Biography:Born in Birmingham, Banton first came to public attention in the early 1980s when he worked with The...
  
  
• Starkey Banton
  Starkey Banton
  Starkey Banton aka Starkey Super is a British reggae deejay known for his "cultural" lyrics, active since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dave Barker
  Dave Barker
  Dave Barker is a reggae and rocksteady singer who has made a string of solo albums along with recordings as a member of The Techniques and as half of the duo Dave and Ansell Collins.-Biography:...
  
  
• Theophilus Beckford
  Theophilus Beckford
  Theophilus Beckford , also known by the nickname "Snappin'", was a Jamaican pianist who was one of the pioneers of indigenous Jamaican music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bedouin Soundclash
  Bedouin Soundclash
  Bedouin Soundclash is a Canadian band currently based in Toronto. Their sound can be described as reggae and ska.-History:The band's current lineup consists of vocalist and guitarist Jay Malinowski, and bassist Eon Sinclair with Sekou Lumumba on drums. Their debut album, Root Fire, released in 2001...
  
  
• Beenie Man
  Beenie Man
  Anthony Moses Davis , better known by his stage name Beenie Man, is a Grammy award winning Jamaican reggae artist. He is the self-proclaimed "King of the Dancehall".-Biography:...
  
  
• Nyanka Bell
• Lorna Bennett
  Lorna Bennett
  Lorna Bennett is a reggae singer who twice topped the Jamaican singles chart in the early 1970s, and who is best remembered for her reggae version of "Breakfast in Bed".-Biography:Born in St...
  
  
• Spragga Benz
  Spragga Benz
  -Career:He began his career around 1991. Once known to his friends as "Spaghetti" , but this was later shortened to Spragga. The Benz in his name comes from the sound system for which he used to work for, L.A. Benz, and it is through this that he found his way into the music industry at a Dubplate...
  
  
• Beshara
  Beshara (band)
  Beshara were a British reggae band from Moseley, Birmingham, that formed in 1976. The band are most notable for their 1981 Lovers rock hit "Men Cry Too", which reached number 6 in the reggae charts. Although known for their Lovers rock singles, they were also very capable of recording roots reggae...
  
  
• Big Joe
  Big Joe (reggae)
  Big Joe is a Jamaican reggae deejay and record producer, who recorded extensively in the 1970s and early 1980s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Big Mountain
  Big Mountain (Band)
  Big Mountain is an American reggae/pop band, most famous for their cover version of Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way," which became a Top 10 hit single in the U.S...
  
  
• Big Youth
  Big Youth
  Manley Augustus Buchanan , better known as Big Youth , is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s....
  
  
• Barry Biggs
  Barry Biggs
  Barry Biggs is a reggae singer, best known in the UK for his cover of the Blue Magic song, "Sideshow", which got to #3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1976.-Career:...
  
  
• Black Roots
  Black Roots (band)
  Black Roots were a roots reggae band from the St. Paul's area of Bristol, England formed in 1979. They released several albums before splitting up in 1990.-History:...
  
  
• The Black Seeds
  The Black Seeds
  The Black Seeds are a musical group from Wellington, New Zealand. Their music is a fusion of dub, funk, afrobeat and soul.The Black Seeds have two double-platinum selling albums at home, and successful European album releases through the German-based Sonar Kollektiv label...
  
  
• Black Slate
  Black Slate
  Black Slate are a reggae band based in the United Kingdom, and formed in 1974. They toured heavily around London and backed Jamaican musicians such as Dennis Brown, Delroy Wilson, and Ken Boothe when they played in the UK...
  
  
• The Blackstones
  The Blackstones
  The Blackstones are a United Kingdom-based reggae vocal trio formed in 1974, in the tradition of the Jamaican harmony-trio.The Blackstones comprised the brothers Leon, Byron, and Neville Leiffer. One of the group's early singles, "We Nah Go Suffer", was released on the Daddy Kool and topped the...
  
  
• Black Uhuru
  Black Uhuru
  Black Uhuru are a Jamaican reggae group formed in 1972, initially as Uhuru . The group has undergone several line-up changes over the years, with Duckie Simpson always maintaining group control and ownership...
  
  
• Everton Blender
  Everton Blender
  Everton Blender Everton Dennis Williams, in Clarendon, Jamaica) is an award-winning reggae singer and producer, known for his smooth, crooning, tenor vocals, up-tempo arrangements, and spiritually uplifting themes, successfully bridging the gap between roots reggae and...
  
  
• Alpha Blondy
  Alpha Blondy
  Alpha Blondy is a reggae singer and international recording artist. Alpha Blondy was born Seydou Koné in Dimbokro, Côte d'Ivoire. He sings mainly in his native language of Dioula, in French and English, and sometimes in Arabic or Hebrew...
  
  
• Bloodfire Posse
• The Blues Busters
  The Blues Busters
  The Blues Busters were a Jamaican vocal duo formed in 1960, comprising Philip James and Lloyd Campbell. The Blues Busters were the most consistently popular Jamaican male duo of the early 1960s, and were part of the Jamaican party that performed at the 1964 New York World's Fair...
  
  
• Yami Bolo
  Yami Bolo
  Yami Bolo is a Jamaican reggae singer and performer.-Biography:Rolando Ephraim McLean, better known as Yami Bolo, is a Jamaican reggae singer, musician, artist, and performer. He was born on October 1, 1970 and grew up in Kingston 13...
  
  
• Bongo Herman
  Bongo Herman
  Herman Davis , better known as Bongo Herman, is a Jamaican hand-drummer, percussionist and singer who has had a successful career stretching back to the early 1960s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Barry Boom
  Barry Boom
  Barry Boom is a reggae singer and record producer from London.Paul Robinson was a member of the reggae group One Blood in the 1980s along with his brother Errol, until the group broke up after Errol's death. One Blood released two albums in 1982 - In Love and Super Showcase...
  
  
• Ken Boothe
  Ken Boothe
  Ken Boothe OD is a Jamaican recording artist.-Biography:Ken Boothe was born in the Denham Town area of Kingston in 1948, the youngest of seven children, and began singing in school...
  
  
• Born Jamericans
  Born Jamericans
  Born Jamericans was a reggae/hip hop duo formed in Washington, D.C., popular in the 1990s.The group comprised Norman "Notch" Howell and Edley "Shine" Payne. Notch's voice is smooth and melodic, while Shine's is rougher and tends more toward rapping...
  
  
• Bounty Killer
  Bounty Killer
  Bounty Killer is a Grammy nominated Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay. He is the founder of a dancehall collective known as The Alliance.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Dennis Bovell
  Dennis Bovell
  Dennis Bovell is a reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer. He was a member of the British reggae band Matumbi, and released dub-reggae records under his own name as well as the pseudonym 'Blackbeard'....
  
   aka Blackbeard
• Andru Branch
  Andru Branch
  Andru Reginald Arnold Branch is a Canadian reggae musician, singer-songwriter and leader of the reggae band Andru Branch & Halfway Tree.-Career:...
  
  
• Brick & Lace
  Brick & Lace
  Brick and Lace are a Jamaican R&B reggae fusion musical duo consisting of sisters Nyanda and Nailah Thorbourne. Originally Brick & Lace consisted of three sisters Nyanda, Nailah, and Tasha Thorbourne...
  
  
• Annette Brissett
  Annette Brissett
  -Biography:Brissett was born in Jamaica and sang in church as a child as well as learning drums from her brother, before moving with her family to New York City at the age of twelve. In the early 1970s she began her career as a drummer, supoorting visiting Jamaican singers. She also began a singing...
  
  
• Peter Broggs
  Peter Broggs
  Peter Broggs is a Jamaican reggae musician. He is a successful artist in Jamaica and well-known in the international reggae scenes....
  
  
• Cedric Brooks
  Cedric Brooks
  Cedric "Im" Brooks, is a Jamaican saxophonist and flautist known for his solo recordings and as a member of The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, The Light of Saba, and The Skatalites.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mike Brooks
  Mike Brooks (singer)
  Mike Brooks aka Mikey Brooks, Prince Michael is a reggae singer whose career stretches back to the early 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Barry Brown
  Barry Brown (singer)
  Barry Brown was a Jamaican reggae singer, initially coming to prominence in the 1970s with his work with Bunny Lee, but remaining popular throughout his career.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dennis Brown
  Dennis Brown
  Dennis Emmanuel Brown was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a sub-genre of reggae...
  
  
• Foxy Brown
  Foxy Brown (singer)
  Foxy Brown is a reggae singer born in Jamaica as Jennifer Esmerelda Hylton. Her first introduction to the reggae charts was via the Steely & Clevie-produced versions of Tracy Chapman's " Baby, Can I Hold You Tonight" and "Fast Car," the former even entering Billboard's Black Singles Chart. These...
  
  
• Glen Brown
  Glen Brown
  Glen Brown , also known as 'God Son' and 'The Rhythm Master', is a Jamaican singer, musician, and record producer, working primarily in the genres of reggae and dub...
  
  
• Junior Brown
  Junior Brown
  Jamieson "Junior" Brown is an American country guitarist and singer. He has released nine studio albums in his career, and has charted twice on the Billboard country singles charts. Brown's signature instrument is the "guit-steel" double neck guitar, a hybrid of electric guitar and lap steel...
  
  
• Prezident Brown
  Prezident Brown
  Prezident Brown aka Professor Frisky & Junior Ranking is a Jamaican dancehall deejay.-Biography:Cotterell was born in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica and raised in St. Mary...
  
  
• U Brown
  U Brown
  U Brown aka New Roy, Hugh Brown, Nuroy is a reggae deejay who released eleven albums between 1976 and 1984.-Biography:...
  
  
• Buccaneer
  Buccaneer (musician)
  Buccaneer is the stage name of Jamaican dancehall artist Andrew Bradford . He first emerged in 1994 and has released three albums. He later went into production.-Biography:...
  
  
• Burning Spear
  Burning Spear
  Winston Rodney, OD , also known as Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer and musician. Burning Spear is known for his Rastafari movement messages.-History:...
  
  
• Bushman
  Bushman (reggae singer)
  Bushman is a Jamaican reggae singer. He was raised in the Rastafari culture from a young age.-Biography:Born Dwight Duncan in Prospect Beach, St. Thomas, Jamaica in 1973, he was raised as a Rastafarian. He attended the Lysson All Age School, where his music teacher noticed his potential for music...
  
  
• Junior Byles
  Junior Byles
  Kerrie Byles is a reggae singer, born July 17, 1948 in Kingston, Jamaica.-The Versatiles:...
  
  

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• Daweh Congo
• Cultura Profética
  Cultura Profética
  Cultura Profética is a Puerto Rican reggae band that debuted in 1996. They have toured in Puerto Rico and across the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Mexico and the United States...
  
  
• The Cables
  The Cables
  The Cables are a Jamaican rocksteady/reggae vocal trio led by Keble Drummond, who recorded for Studio One in the late 1960s.-History:The group was led by Keble Drummond , whose first name led to the name of the group...
  
  
• Susan Cadogan
  Susan Cadogan
  Susan Cadogan is a reggae singer best known for her hit records in the 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Al Campbell
  Al Campbell
  Al Campbell is a Jamaican reggae singer active since the late 1960s.-Biography:Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Campbell's singing career began in church, where his father was a preacher, and Al would sing to raise funds...
  
  
• Cornell Campbell
  Cornell Campbell
  Cornell Campbell aka Don Cornell or Don Gorgon is a reggae singer, best known for his trademark falsetto voice, and his recordings at Studio One in the late 1960s and his later work with Bunny Lee in the 1970s.-Biography:Cornel has one of the sweetest falsettos of any Jamaican vocalist and uses it...
  
  
• Don Campbell
  Don Campbell (musician)
  Don Campbell is a British reggae singer from north-west London, best known for his lovers rock records released since the mid-1990s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Martin Campbell
  Martin Campbell
  -Life and career:Campbell was born in Hastings, New Zealand. He directed two James Bond films, 1995's GoldenEye, starring Pierce Brosnan, and 2006's Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig, and was the first Bond director since John Glen to direct more than one film, as well as the oldest director in...
  
  
• Icho Candy
  Icho Candy
  Winston Evans , better known as Icho Candy, is a Jamaican reggae singer.-Biography:Icho Candy first came to prominence singing with sound systems such as the one run by producer Jack Ruby. Ruby produced Candy's debut release, "Little Children No Cry", but it was not a success, and Candy moved on to...
  
  
• Capleton
  Capleton
  Capleton is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist. He is also referred to as King Shango, King David, The Fireman and The Prophet. His record label is called David House Productions...
  
  
• Captain Sinbad
  Captain Sinbad
  Captain Sinbad was the deejay alter ego of Jamaican record producer Carl Dwyer .-Biography:Dwyer was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and entered the music industry as a deejay under the name Captain Sinbad on the Sound of Silence sound system, which at the time also featured Sugar Minott, with whom he...
  
  
• Don Carlos
  Don Carlos (musician)
  Don Carlos a.k.a. Don McCarlos is a Jamaican reggae singer and composer.-Biography:He was born and raised in Western Kingston, Jamaica in a very deprived district known as Waterhouse out of which came many talented reggae musicians. One such artist was King Tubby, one of the founders of Black...
  
  
• Carlton and The Shoes
  Carlton and The Shoes
  Carlton and the Shoes are a Jamaican vocal group who had their greatest success in the late 1960s, as rocksteady gradually became reggae and are still active in 2008, most notably in Japan and Jamaica...
  
  
• Lacksley Castell
  Lacksley Castell
  Lacksley Castell was a Jamaican reggae singer best known for his work in the early 1980s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chalice
• The Chantells
  The Chantells
  The Chantells was a Jamaican reggae group from the latter half of the 1970s.Samuel Bramwell, Tommy Thomas and Lloyd Forrester started to record as a vocal harmony trio in 1975 for producers Duke Reid and Clive Hunt ....
  
  
• Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin (singer)
  Charlie Chaplin is a Jamaican dancehall and ragga deejay and singer. It was common for Jamaican deejays of the era to name themselves after film stars or characters. Bennett, however, had been nicknamed after the comedian since his youth. His career began in 1980 when he began working with...
  
  
• Lloyd Charmers
  Lloyd Charmers
  Lloyd Charmers is a ska and reggae singer, keyboard player and record producer.-Career:...
  
  
• Tony Chin
• The Chosen Few
  The Chosen Few (reggae group)
  The Chosen Few were a reggae group from Kingston, Jamaica, formed in 1969 and active until the mid-1980s.-History:The Chosen Few evolved from The Federals, with the latter's Franklin Spence and David Scott joined by Noel Brown and Richard McDonald. They initially recorded reggae covers of songs by...
  
  
• Christafari
  Christafari
  Christafari is a Christian reggae band formed in 1990. It is centered around the personality of ordained religious minister Mark "Tansoback" Mohr , an American born-again Christian. Until the age of 17, Mohr was a Rastafarian...
  
  
• Geoffrey Chung
  Geoffrey Chung
  Geoffrey Chung was a Jamaican musician, recording engineer, and record producer.-Biography:Chung was born in 1950 in Kingston, Jamaica...
  
  
• Mikey Chung
  Mikey Chung
  Born Michael Chung in 1954, Mikey "Mao" Chung is a keyboard, guitar and percussion player, arranger and record producer of Jamaican music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tami Chynn
  Tami Chynn
  -Early years:Tami Chynn was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Her father, Richard Chin, is of Chinese descent with Cherokee ancestry and her mother, Christine Chin is Afro-Jamaican and British...
  
  
• The Cimarons
  The Cimarons
  The Cimarons were a UK reggae band formed in 1967. They were the UK's first self-contained indigenous reggae band.-History:Jamaican natives, the Cimarons migrated to Britain in 1967 with a lineup consisting of Franklyn Dunn , Carl Levy , Locksley Gichie , and Maurice Ellis ; vocalist, Winston Reid...
  
  
• The Clarendonians
  The Clarendonians
  The Clarendonians were a ska and rocksteady vocal group from Jamaica, active from the mid to late 1960s.-History:The Clarendonians were originally Fitzroy "Ernest" Wilson and Peter Austin , the duo coming together in 1963 in their native Clarendon...
  
  
• Augustus "Gussie" Clarke
• Johnny Clarke
  Johnny Clarke
  Johnny Clarke , Whitfield Town, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae musician.-Biography:Clarke grew up in the Kingston ghetto of Whitfield Town. In 1971 he won a talent contest in Bull Bay, his prize a meeting with producer Clancy Eccles, with whom he recorded his first song, "God Made the Sea and the...
  
  
• Jimmy Cliff
  Jimmy Cliff
  Jimmy Cliff, OM is a Jamaican musician, singer and actor. He is the only currently living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievement in the arts and sciences...
  
  
• Cocoa Tea
  Cocoa Tea
  Cocoa Tea is a Jamaican reggae/dancehall singer, songwriter, and DJ.- Biography :Cocoa Tea was popular in Jamaica from 1985, but has become successful worldwide only since the 1990s...
  
  
• Stranger Cole
  Stranger Cole
  Stranger Cole, also known as StrangeJah Cole is a Jamaican singer whose long recording career dates from the early days of ska in 1962 through to the 2000s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Collie Buddz
  Collie Buddz
  Collie Buddz is a Bermudian reggae and dancehall artist best known for his single "Come Around". Although born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was raised in Bermuda. He performed on Shaggy's 2007 album Intoxication on the track "Mad Mad World". In 2008, he performed the song "SOS" on WWE The Music,...
  
  
• Ansell Collins
  Ansell Collins
  Ansell Collins is a Jamaican keyboard player, producer, and occasional singer. Born 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Congos
  The Congos
  The Congos are a reggae vocal group from Jamaica active on and off from the mid-1970s until the present day. They are best known for their Heart of the Congos album, recorded with Lee "Scratch" Perry.-History:...
  
  
• Joseph Cotton
  Joseph Cotton
  Joseph Cotton aka Jah Walton is a reggae deejay active since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Count Ossie
  Count Ossie
  Count Ossie, born Oswald Williams was a Jamaican drummer and band leader.-Biography:As a young boy Ossie grew up in a rasta community where he learned techniques of vocal chanting and hand drumming under the tutelage of Brother Job...
  
  
• Tommy Cowan
  Tommy Cowan
  Tommy Cowan is a producer and singer, initially working in reggae but later concentrating on gospel, who has been involved in the music business since the 1960s...
  
  
• Culcha Candela
  Culcha Candela
  Culcha Candela is a Dancehall group from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2001. Their lyrics range from political issues, such as "Una Cosa" or "Schöne, neue Welt" to party songs, such as "Partybus"...
  
  
• Culture
  Culture (band)
  Culture was a Jamaican roots reggae group founded in 1976. Originally they were known as the African Disciples.The members of the trio were Joseph Hill , Albert Walker and Kenneth Dayes ....
  
  

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• Daddy Freddy
  Daddy Freddy
  S. Frederick Small , better known as Daddy Freddy is a ragga vocalist.-Early life:Small was born in Kingston, Jamaica and grew up in the city's Trenchtown district. His house was a few minutes walk from Coxsone Dodd's influential record studio Studio One.His neighbours were Jacob Miller and...
  
  
• Daddy Screw
  Daddy Screw
  Michael Alexander Johnson , better known as Daddy Screw is a Jamaican dancehall deejay best known for his work in the 1980s and 1990s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tonton David
  Tonton David
  Tonton David is a French Reggae singer born in Réunion with a turbulent childhood in a suburb of Paris. He left his family at 14, and managed to make a career in music with powerful and political lyrics.-References:...
  
  
• Ronnie Davis
  Ronnie Davis
  Ronnie Davis is a reggae singer who was a member of The Tennors and The Itals, and now performs with the group Ronnie Davis & Idren.-Biography:...
  
  
• Nora Dean
  Nora Dean
  Nora Dean is a Jamaican reggae singer, best known for her 1970 hit "Barbwire", who later recorded as a gospel artist.-Biography:Dean recorded as a member of The Soulettes and The Ebony Sisters before recording as a solo artist. She recorded for Lee "Scratch" Perry, including the 1969 single "The...
  
  
• Desmond Dekker
  Desmond Dekker
  Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group, The Aces , he had one of the first international Jamaican hits with "Israelites". Other hits include "007 " and "It Miek"...
  
  
• Del Arno Band
  Del Arno Band
  Del Arno Band is a Serbian and former Yugoslav reggae band from Belgrade. Formed in 1986, Del Arno Band are considered the longest lasting Serbian reggae band, and one of the pioneers of Serbian and former Yugoslav reggae scenes.-1980s:...
  
  
• Junior Delgado
  Junior Delgado
  Oscar Hibbert , better known as Junior Delgado, was a reggae singer, famed for his roots style.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chaka Demus & Pliers
  Chaka Demus & Pliers
  Chaka Demus & Pliers are a Jamaican reggae duo made up of deejay Chaka Demus and singer Pliers, best known for their hit "Tease Me".They had more commercial success with mainstream pop fans after their collaboration in the early 1990s, that either ever had in their solo careers.-Career:Both artists...
  
  
• Dillinger
  Dillinger (musician)
  Dillinger is a reggae artist.-Biography:As a young man growing up in Kingston, Dillinger would hang around Dennis Alcapone's El Paso sound system...
  
  
• Phyllis Dillon
  Phyllis Dillon
  Phyllis Dillon was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer who recorded for Duke Reid's lucrative Treasure Isle record label in the late 1960s and early 1970s.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Dobby Dobson
  Dobby Dobson
  Highland "Dobby" Dobson is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer, nicknamed 'The Loving Pauper' after one of his best known songs.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dr Alimantado
  Dr Alimantado
  Dr Alimantado, born Winston James Thompson, also known as The Ital Surgeon is a Jamaican reggae singer, DJ, and producer.-Biography:Thompson was born in Kingston in 1952, where he adopted the Rastafarian faith at an early age...
  
  
• The Drastics
  The Drastics
  The Drastics are a roots-oriented dub reggae group hailing from Chicago. Though primarily classified as a reggae group, The Drastics embrace many styles of music both live and in the studio...
  
  
• Eric Donaldson
  Eric Donaldson
  Eric Donaldson is a Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter.-Biography:Donaldson has won the Jamaican Festival Song Competition six times, in 1971, 1977, 1978, 1984, 1993 and 1997. His winning 1971 entry, "Cherry Oh Baby", launched him into the limelight, although he had been composing and recording...
  
  
• Dry & Heavy
  Dry & Heavy
  Dry & Heavy is a Japanese dub and reggae band, formed in 1991 by drummer Shigemoto Nanao and bass player Takeshi Akimoto . Their names come from the Burning Spear album of the same name...
  
  
• Don Drummond
  Don Drummond
  Don Drummond was a Jamaican ska trombonist and composer. He was one of the original members of The Skatalites, and composed many of their tunes....
  
  
• Dub FX
  Dub FX
  Dub FX is a worldwide street performer and studio recording artist from St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. After playing and singing in a band called Twitch, he set out solo when he moved to Europe. His trademark is creating rich live music using only his own performance aided by Live looping and...
  
  
• Lucky Dube
  Lucky Dube
  Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist...
  
  
• Sly Dunbar
  Sly Dunbar
  Lowell "Sly" Fillmore Dunbar is a drummer.-Biography:Dunbar, whose nickname was reportedly given for his passion for Sly & the Family Stone, launched his musical career while still in his adolescence, playing with a local group, The Yardbrooms, at the age of fifteen...
  
  
• Errol Dunkley
  Errol Dunkley
  Errol Dunkley is a Jamaican reggae musician, born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1951.-Biography:Dunkley's recording career began in 1965, when he was fourteen, with "Gypsy" for Linden Pottinger's Gaydisc label, "My Queen" for Prince Buster, and "Love Me Forever" on the Rio label...
  
  
• Dub Incorporation
  Dub Incorporation
  Dub Incorporation is a reggae band from Saint-Étienne, France together since 1997. They combine a range of styles, including dancehall, dub, ska and even rap...
  
  
• The Dynamites

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• Earl Sixteen
  Earl Sixteen
  Earl Sixteen is a reggae singer whose career began in the mid-1970s.-Biography:Daley grew up in Waltham Park Road, Kingston, and, influenced by American soul and Jamaican artists such as Dennis Brown, began his singing career by entering local talent shows...
  
  
• Clint Eastwood
  Clint Eastwood (musician)
  Clint Eastwood is a Jamaican reggae deejay, who recorded as a solo artist in the late 1970s and early 1980s before teaming up with UK deejay General Saint as the duo Clint Eastwood & General Saint.-Biography:...
  
  
• Easy Star All*Stars
  Easy Star All-Stars
  Originally formed as a studio band for the label's earliest recordings, Easy Star All-Stars is a reggae collective with a rotating roster of musicians and singers founded by the co-founders of New York City-based Easy Star Records in 1997...
  
  
• Clancy Eccles
  Clancy Eccles
  Clancy Eccles was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer, songwriter, arranger, promoter, record producer and talent scout. Known mostly for his early reggae works, he brought a political dimension to this music...
  
  
• Jackie Edwards
• Rupie Edwards
  Rupie Edwards
  Rupie Edwards is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Eek a Mouse
• Elephant Man
• El General
  El General
  El General is a Panamanian Reggae artist considered by some to be one of the Fathers of Reggaeton. During the early 1990s, he initiated the Spanish spoken dancehall that would later become reggaeton...
  
  
• Alton Ellis
  Alton Ellis
  Alton Nehemiah Ellis, OD, was a Jamaican musician best known as one of the innovators of rocksteady music and was often referred to as the "Godfather of Rocksteady". In 2006, he was inducted into the International Reggae And World Music Awards Hall Of Fame.-Biography:Ellis was born in 1938 and...
  
  
• Hortense Ellis
  Hortense Ellis
  Hortense Ellis was a reggae musician, and the younger sister of fellow artist, Alton Ellis.-Biography:Her father worked on the railways while her mother ran a fruit stall. She was 18 years old when she appeared on the Vere Johns Opportunity Hour, then Jamaica's foremost outlet for young...
  
  
• Junior English
  Junior English
  Junior English is a Jamaican-born reggae singer who began his career in the early 1960s before relocating to England.-Biography:English was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1951...
  
  
• The Ethiopians
  The Ethiopians
  The Ethiopians were a ska, rocksteady, and reggae vocal group, founded by Leonard Dillon , Stephen Taylor and Aston Morris.-History:...
  
  
• El Negro
  El Negro
  El Negro is the nickname of:*Fernando Chamorro, Nicaraguan rebel*Horacio Hernandez, Cuban drummer*Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist...
  
  

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• Jermaine Fagan
  Jermaine Fagan
  Jermaine Fagan also known as Prince is a reggae musician. He was born in Saint Thomas, Jamaica and raised in Portmore.-Biography:...
  
  
• Majek Fashek
  Majek Fashek
  Majekodumni Fasheke, popularly known as Majek Fashek, is a Nigerian reggae singer and guitarist. Various translations of his name include "high priest who does not lie", "powers of miracles" and "the high priest does not live".-Early life:...
  
  
• Fathead
  Fathead (musician)
  Fathead , was a dancehall deejay best known for his collaborations with Yellowman in the early 1980s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chuck Fenda
• Robert Ffrench
  Robert Ffrench
  -Biography:Robert Ffrench grew up in central Kingston and attended Kingston College. He recorded his first singles in 1979, at the age of 17. He achieved success in 1984 with his performances at the Festival Song Contest and the Reggae Sunsplash festival. He had a combination hit with deejay...
  
  
• Edi Fitzroy
  Edi Fitzroy
  Fitzroy Edwards , better known by his stage name Edi Fitzroy is a Jamaican reggae singer, active since 1975 but best known for his work in the dancehall era.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sharon Forrester
  Sharon Forrester
  Sharon Forrester is a Jamaican reggae singer who had success in the 1970s and 1990s.-Biography:Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1956, Forrester was born into a musical family and began singing at an early age, singing in church choirs from the age of six...
  
  
• Dean Fraser
  Dean Fraser
  Dean Fraser is a Jamaican saxophonist who has contributed to hundreds of reggae recordings since the mid-1970s. He was awarded the Musgrave Medal by the Jamaican government in 1993 in recognition of his services to music.-Biography:Fraser started to play the clarinet at the age of 12...
  
  
• Lutan Fyah
  Lutan Fyah
  Lutan Fyah is a Jamaican musician, singer, reggae and member of the Rastafari movement Bobo Shanti.-Background:...
  
  

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• Boris Gardiner
  Boris Gardiner
  Boris Gardiner is a Jamaican singer, songwriter and bass guitarist.-Career:Gardiner performed on the tourist circuit for much of the 1960s and was a member of Carlos Malcolm & the Afro Caribs and Byron Lee's Dragonaires...
  
  
• The Gaylads
  The Gaylads
  The Gaylads were one of the top Rocksteady vocal groups active in Jamaica between 1963 and 1973. The group, formed in Kingston, originally consisted of singers Harris "B.B." Seaton, Winston Delano Stewart and Maurice Roberts; Seaton and Stewart had previously been successful as the duo Winston &...
  
  
• General Echo
  General Echo
  General Echo aka Ranking Slackness, was one of the first reggae deejays to move away from 'cultural' lyrics towards 'slackness' ....
  
  
• General Grant
• General Levy
  General Levy
  General Levy is a London born ragga vocalist, regularly employed on studio tracks by drum and bass DJs. He is best known for the track "Incredible" which he recorded with M-Beat.-Biography:...
  
  
• General Trees
  General Trees
  General Trees was one of the most popular jamaican dancehall deejay of the 1980s, best known for his hits in the latter half of the decade.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gentleman
  Gentleman (musician)
  Tilmann Otto , better known by his stage name Gentleman, is a German Reggae musician.- Personal life :...
  
  
• Sophia George
  Sophia George
  Sophia George is a Jamaican singer. She is best known for her 1985 hit "Girlie Girlie," which reached number one in Jamaica, and was also a Top-10 hit in the UK...
  
  
• The Gladiators
  The Gladiators (band)
  The Gladiators are a Jamaican roots reggae band, most popular during the 1970s. The core was Albert Griffiths , Clinton Fearon and Dallimore Sutherland bass guitar and singer. The two most famous albums are Trenchtown Mix Up and Proverbial Reggae with songs as "Hearsay", "Jah Works", "Dreadlocks...
  
  
• Deborahe Glasgow
  Deborahe Glasgow
  Deborahe Glasgow was an English "Lovers Rock" singer of guyanese parentage who was active from the late 1970s to the beginning of the 90s. Though Glasgow released only one album in her lifetime, 1989's Deborahe Glasgow, she began releasing singles in her adolescence...
  
  
• Vin Gordon
  Vin Gordon
  Vin Gordon is a Jamaican trombone player.-Biography:Gordon grew up in Jones Town, Kingston, Jamaica as one of eight children. He went to Kingston's catholic Alpha Boys School where he learned to play trombone and string bass. One of his tutors was Lennie Hibbert...
  
  
• Eddy Grant
  Eddy Grant
  Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant is a musician, born in Plaisance, Guyana.- Life and career :When he was still a young boy, his parents emigrated to London, UK, where he settled. He lived in Kentish Town and went to school at the Acland Burghley Secondary Modern at Tufnell Park...
  
  
• Rudy Grant
  Rudy Grant
  Rudy Grant, also known as Little Brother Grant and The Mexicano , is a reggae deejay and singer.-Biography:Born in Guyana, Grant settled in the United Kingdom with his family in 1960...
  
  
• Owen Gray
  Owen Gray
  Owen Gray also known as Owen Grey is one of Jamaica's 'Foundation' singers whose work spans the R&B, ska, rocksteady, and reggae eras of Jamaican music, and he has been credited as Jamaica's first home-grown singing star....
  
  
• Winston Grennan
  Winston Grennan
  Winston Grennan was a Jamaican drummer, famous for session work from 1962 to 1973 in Jamaica as well as later in New York City through the 1970s and '80s.-Career:...
  
  
• Greyhound
  Greyhound (band)
  Greyhound was a reggae band from the United Kingdom.Greyhound began as The Rudies in the late 1960s, with core members Danny Smith and Freddie Notes. They also released material as The Tilermen and Des All Stars. Under the name The Rudies, they issued a cover of "Patches" by Clarence Carter and...
  
  
• Marcia Griffiths
  Marcia Griffiths
  Marcia Llyneth Griffiths is a successful female singer, also called the "Queen of Reggae". One reviewer described her noting "she is known primarily for her strong, smooth-as-mousse love songs and captivating live performances".Griffiths started her career in 1964...
  
  
• Winston Groovy
  Winston Groovy
  Winston Tucker , better known as Winston Groovy, is a Jamaican reggae singer best known for his recordings between the late 1960s and 1980s.-Biography:Tucker was born in the Waltham Park Road area of Kingston, Jamaica in 1946...
  
  
• Groundation
  Groundation
  Groundation is an American roots reggae band with jazz and dub influences from Sonoma County in Northern California.-History:Formed in the fall of 1998 by Harrison Stafford, Marcus Urani, and Ryan Newman, Groundation began on the campus of Sonoma State University's Jazz Program...
  
  
• Gyptian
  Gyptian
  Gyptian Born on 25 October 1983, Jamaican reggae singer. He often appears with roots reggae songs within the reggae subgenre dancehall....
  
  
• Gondwana
  Gondwana
  In paleogeography, Gondwana , originally Gondwanaland, was the southernmost of two supercontinents that later became parts of the Pangaea supercontinent. It existed from approximately 510 to 180 million years ago . Gondwana is believed to have sutured between ca. 570 and 510 Mya,...
  
  

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• Half Pint
• Audrey Hall
  Audrey Hall
  -Biography:Hall began her career singing with Dandy Livingstone in the duo Dandy & Audrey. They recorded the song "Morning Side of the Mountain" in 1969, the success of which led to an album of the same name. They released a second album on the Trojan label, I Need You. Livingstone also produced...
  
  
• Pam Hall
• Beres Hammond
  Beres Hammond
  Beres Hammond is a reggae singer known in particular for his romantic lovers rock and soulful voice...
  
  
• Derrick Harriott
  Derrick Harriott
  Derrick Harriott is a singer and record producer. He has produced recordings by Big Youth, Chariot Riders, The Chosen Few, Dennis Brown, The Ethiopians, Keith & Tex, The Kingstonians, Rudy Mills, Scotty, Sly & Revolutionaries, and Winston McAnuff.-Biography:As a student at Excelsior High School,...
  
  
• Josh Heinrichs
  Josh Heinrichs
  Josh Heinrichs is an American reggae singer/songwriter who was the former lead singer of internationally known indie reggae band, Jah Roots. Since leaving the band in 2008, Heinrichs has launched a solo career with an iTunes Top 5 Best Selling Reggae album....
  
  
• The Heptones
  The Heptones
  The Heptones are a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae vocal trio most active in the 1960s and early 1970s. They were one of the more significant trios of that era, and played a major role in the gradual transition between ska and rocksteady with their three-part harmonies.-History:Leroy Sibbles, Earl...
  
  
• Herbs
  Herbs (band)
  Herbs are a New Zealand reggae vocal group formed in 1979 once described as "New Zealand's most soulful, heartfelt and consistent contemporary musical voice". It has been said their debut EP Whats' Be Happen? "set a standard for Pacific reggae which has arguably never been surpassed".-History:Herbs...
  
  
• Lennie Hibbert
  Lennie Hibbert
  Lennie Hibbert OD was a Jamaican musician who was bandmaster at the Alpha Cottage School, and also a vibraphone virtuoso, recording two albums for Studio One.-Biography:...
  
  
• Joe Higgs
  Joe Higgs
  Joe Higgs was a reggae musician from Jamaica. In the late 1950s and 1960s he was part of the duo Higgs and Wilson together with Roy Wilson...
  
  
• Justin Hinds
  Justin Hinds
  Justin Hinds was a Jamaican ska vocalist, with his backing singers the Dominoes.He is best known for his work with Duke Reid's Treasure Isle Records, where his most notable song, "Carry Go Bring Come" recorded in late 1963, went to number one in Jamaica...
  
  
• The Hippy Boys
  The Hippy Boys
  The Hippy Boys was formed in 1968 by Lloyd Charmers. The band included guitarist Alva "Reggie" Lewis, organist Glen Adams and brothers Aston 'Family Man' Barrett on bass guitar and Carlton Barrett drums respectively....
  
  
• Errol Holt
  Errol Holt
  Errol Holt , also known as Errol Carter and by his nickname Flabba, is a Jamaican bass guitar player who was a member of The Morwells and the Roots Radics and has played on hundreds of Jamaican albums.-Biography:...
  
  
• John Holt
  John Holt (singer)
  John Holt is a reggae singer and songwriter.-Biography:Holt was born in Kingston in 1947. By the age of 12, he was a regular entrant in talent contests run at Jamaican theatres by Vere Johns...
  
  
• Honey Boy
  Honey Boy
  Keith Williams , better known as Honey Boy, is a Jamaican reggae singer best known for his recordings in the 1970s who is regarded as one of the pioneers of lovers rock.-Biography:...
  
  
• Keith Hudson
  Keith Hudson
  Keith Hudson aka the "Dark Prince of Reggae" , was a Jamaican reggae artist and record producer.He is known for his influence on the Dub movement.- Biography :...
  
  
• Peter Hunnigale
  Peter Hunnigale
  Peter Hunnigale, also known as Mr. Honey Vibes is a British reggae singer best known for his lovers rock releases.-Biography:Hunnigale started his career as bass guitarist with the Vibes Corner Collective...
  
  
• Clive Hunt
  Clive Hunt
  Clive Hunt is a Jamaican reggae multi-instrumentist, arranger, composer and producer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sheila Hylton
  Sheila Hylton
  Sheila Hylton is a reggae singer who grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. She is best known for the songs, "Breakfast in Bed" , "The Bed's Too Big Without You" and "Mellow Mood"....
  
  
• Hjálmar
  Hjálmar
  - Current :*Þorsteinn Einarsson - Guitar and vocals*Sigurður Halldór Guðmundsson - Keyboards and vocals*Guðmundur Kristinn Jónsson - Guitar* Valdimar Kolbeinn Sigurjónsson - Bass* Helgi Svavar Helgason - Percussion- Former :...
  
  

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• Ijahman Levi
  Ijahman Levi
  Ijahman Levi on June 21, 1946 is a reggae musician. His first album, Haile I Hymn, was released on Island Records in 1978. He became Ijahman Levi after a religious conversion to the Rastafari movement when he was in prison between 1972 and 1974...
  
  
• Inner Circle
• I-Roy
  I-Roy
  Roy Samuel Reid better known as I-Roy was a Jamaican DJ who had a very prolific career during the 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• I-Threes
• The In Crowd
  The In Crowd (reggae band)
  The In Crowd were a popular Jamaican reggae showband of the late 1970s. Led by Fil Callender , the band also included Errol Walker , Clevie Browne , Tony Lewis , Freddie Butler , and Wigmore Francis . The band also featured a horn section of Egbert Evans and Barry Bailey...
  
  
• Iration
  Iration
  Iration is a reggae group from Santa Barbara, CA. All members originally hail from Hawaii. They play a mix of reggae, dub, rock and are known for playing a lot of Sunshine Reggae.-History:...
  
  
• Tippa Irie
  Tippa Irie
  Tippa Irie is a British reggae singer and DJ from Brixton, South London.He first came to prominence in the early eighties as an MC on the South London reggae soundsystem Saxon Studio International....
  
  
• Irie-i
• Welton Irie
  Welton Irie
  Welton Irie , sometimes credited simply as Welton, is a Jamaican reggae deejay, best known for his work in the late 1970s and early 1980s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Devon Irons
• Gregory Isaacs
  Gregory Isaacs
  Gregory Anthony Isaacs was a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in the New York Times, described Isaacs as "the most exquisite vocalist in reggae". His nicknames include Cool Ruler and Lonely Lover....
  
  
• Israel Vibration
  Israel Vibration
  Israel Vibration is a reggae harmony trio, originating from Kingston, Jamaica. Lascelle "Wiss" Bulgin, Albert "Apple Gabriel" Craig, and Cecil "Skelly" Spence all overcame childhood polio, and went on to be one of the most successful roots groups to form in Jamaica in the late 1970s...
  
  
• The Itals
  The Itals
  The Itals are a Jamaican reggae vocal group formed in 1976 by Alvin "Keith" Porter, Ronnie Davis, and Lloyd Ricketts , all of whom had previously also recorded as solo artists. All three had worked together in the late 1960s in The Westmorelites...
  
  
• I-Wayne
• Ras Indio

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• Jah Cure
  Jah Cure
  Jah Cure, or Iyah Cure is a Jamaican reggae musician, who was raised in Kingston. He was given the name Jah Cure by Capleton whom he met while growing up in Kingston.-Career:...
  
  
• Jah Lion aka Jah Lloyd
• Jah Roots
  Jah Roots
  Jah Roots was a reggae band from Springfield, Missouri. The band was active from 2001 to 2009. They produced records under the independent label GanJah Records. The band released several albums and has a local and international following...
  
  
• Jah Shaka
  Jah Shaka
  Jah Shaka has been operating a South East London-based, roots reggae Jamaican sound system since the early 1970s. His name is an amalgamation of the Rastafarian term for God and that of a Zulu warrior, Shaka Zulu.-Career:...
  
  
• Jah Stitch
  Jah Stitch
  Jah Stitch is a reggae deejay best known for his recordings in the 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jah Woosh
  Jah Woosh
  Neville Beckford , better known as Jah Woosh was a Jamaican reggae deejay and record producer, primarily known for his work in the 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jah Warrior
  Jah Warrior
  Jah Warrior is a United Kingdom roots reggae/dub production team, record label, sound system, and musical group centred around Steve Mosco.- Overview :...
  
  
• Jamaican Rhapsody
• David Jahson
  David Jahson
  Everald Pickersgill , better known as David Jahson, is a Jamaican reggae singer, active since the early 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Winston Jarrett
  Winston Jarrett
  Winston Jarrett is a Jamaican reggae singer who was part of Alton Ellis's group The Flames in the 1960s before recording with The Righteous Flames and as a solo artist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Anthony Johnson
  Anthony Johnson (musician)
  Roy Anthony Johnson , better known simply as Anthony Johnson, is a Jamaican reggae singer who was a member of the group Mystic I and is known for the 1980s hit song "Gunshot".-Biography:...
  
  
• Linton Kwesi Johnson
  Linton Kwesi Johnson
  Linton Kwesi Johnson is a UK-based dub poet. He became the second living poet, and the only black poet, to be published in the Penguin Classics series. His poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Patois over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with renowned British...
  
  
• Joseph Israel
  Joseph Israel (musician)
  Joseph Israel is an American "Spiritually Enlightened" reggae musician. Born Joseph Montgomery Fennel in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1977, he is currently based in Fayetteville, Arkansas.His first album is Gone Are the Days....
  
  
• Judge Dread
  Judge Dread
  Alexander Minto Hughes , better known as Judge Dread, was an English reggae and ska musician. He was the first white recording artist to have a reggae hit in Jamaica, and has the most banned songs of all time.-Career:...
  
  

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• Katchafire
  Katchafire
  Katchafire is a New Zealand roots reggae band from Hamilton, New Zealand.Katchafire formed in 1997 as a Bob Marley tribute band and later began writing and performing their own songs...
  
  
• Janet Kay
  Janet Kay
  Janet Kay is a British singer of Jamaican parentage best known for her lovers rock songs of the late 1970s - "Silly Games" and a cover of Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You". She has also had roles as a theatre and television actress...
  
  
• Ini Kamoze
  Ini Kamoze
  Cecil Campbell , better known by his stage name Ini Kamoze is a Jamaican reggae singer. He is best known for his signature song, "Here Comes the Hotstepper", which was released in 1994, and subsequently topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart...
  
  
• Junior Kelly
  Junior Kelly
  Junior Kelly is a reggae singer known for his commitment to the faith of the Rastafari movement and its Bobo Shanti mansion...
  
  
• Pat Kelly
  Pat Kelly (musician)
  Pat Kelly is a reggae singer whose career began in the late 1960s.- The Techniques :Kelly was born in Kingston in 1949. After leaving school, he spent a year studying electronics in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States during 1966, before returning to Jamaica...
  
  
• Kemar Thompson (aka Noncowa, aka Jr. Pinchers)
  Kemar Thompson
  Kemar Thompson is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist. His is the eldest son of reggae mainstay Pinchers.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kiddus I
  Kiddus I
  Kiddus I is a reggae singer and musician, best known for his appearance in the film Rockers.-Biography:...
  
  
• Diana King
  Diana King
  Diana King is a reggae fusion singer-songwriter who specifically performed a mixture and fusion of R&B, reggae, pop and dancehall...
  
  
• Jigsy King
  Jigsy King
  Errol "Jigsy" King is a Jamaican dancehall artist who released several albums on VP Records in the 1990s.-Biography:King emerged in the early 1990s, performing on sound systems, with a gruff vocal style similar to Buju Banton's. After several hit singles in Jamaica, he had some international...
  
  
• King Sounds
  King Sounds
  Roy Livingstone Plummer , better known as King Sounds, is a Jamaican reggae musician who released several albums from late 1970s onwards.-Biography:...
  
  
• King Stitt
  King Stitt
  King Stitt, born Winston Spark , is a Jamaican DJ.- Biography :King Stitt is the oldest living Jamaican deejay. Sparkes was given the nickname Stitt as a boy and decided to use it as his stage name, becoming King Stitt when he was crowned 'king of the deejays'...
  
  
• King Tubby
  King Tubby
  King Tubby was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
• Sean Kingston
  Sean Kingston
  Sean Kingston is a Jamaican-American singer. He pursued a music career and debuted in 2007 with the album Sean Kingston.-Early life:...
  
  
• Knowledge
  Knowledge (band)
  Knowledge were a Jamaican roots reggae group, best known for their work in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which saw them sign to A&M Records.-History:...
  
  

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• Lady Saw
  Lady Saw
  Lady Saw is a Jamaican reggae singer, known as the queen of dancehall.-Biography:...
  
  
• Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont
  Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont
  Eric Lamont , better known as Bingy Bunny, was a Jamaican guitarist and singer who recorded with the Roots Radics and The Morwells as well as recording solo material...
  
  
• Byron Lee
  Byron Lee
  Byron Lee OD, OJ was a musician, record producer, and entrepreneur, best known for his work as leader of Byron Lee and the Dragonaires.-Biography:Lee was born in Christiana in Manchester Parish to an Afro-Jamaican mother and a Chinese father Byron Lee OD, OJ (born Byron Aloysius St. Elmo Lee, 27...
  
  
• Barrington Levy
  Barrington Levy
  Barrington Levy is a reggae and dancehall artist from Jamaica.-Career:In 1976, Levy formed a band with his cousin, Everton Dacres, called the Mighty Multitude; the pair released "My Black Girl" in 1977...
  
  
• Hopeton Lewis
  Hopeton Lewis
  Hopeton Lewis is a Jamaican singer. Lewis' rich baritone has had a profound impact on Jamaican music, and his mixture of gospel and soul elements helped set the template for early rocksteady.-Biography:...
  
  
• Levi Roots
  Levi Roots
  Keith Valentine Graham , better known as Levi Roots, is a British-Jamaican reggae musician, television personality, celebrity chef, businessman and multi-millionaire currently residing in Brixton, South London.-Music:...
  
  
• Lieutenant Stitchie
  Lieutenant Stitchie
  Cleveland Laing , better known as Lieutenant Stitchie, is a Jamaican deejay who originally worked in the dancehall style but switched to gospel reggae in 1997 after surviving a car crash, thereafter working under the shorter name Stitchie.-Dancehall career:Laing was born is Spanish Town and worked...
  
  
• Little John
  Little John (musician)
  John McMorris , better known as Little John, is a Jamaican dancehall musician best known for his 1980s recordings.-History:Born 1970 in Kingston, Jamaica, Litle John was so called as he began performing and recording at the age of nine...
  
  
• Little Roy
  Little Roy
  Little Roy is a Jamaican reggae artist.-Biography:Little Roy launched his career in the rocksteady age, recording a few singles for Coxsone Dodd and Prince Buster, none of which made much headway. As reggae itself unfolded, Roy switched to Lloyd Daley's recording studio...
  
  
• Dandy Livingstone
  Dandy Livingstone
  Dandy Livingstone is a Jamaican reggae musician and producer, best known for his 1972 hit, "Suzanne Beware of the Devil", and for his song, "Rudy, A Message to You", which was later a hit for The Specials...
  
  
• Josh Livingston
• Jah Lloyd
  Jah Lloyd
  Jah Lloyd, aka Jah Lion, The Black Lion of Judah, and Jah Ali was a reggae singer, deejay and producer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Fred Locks
  Fred Locks
  Fred Locks is a roots reggae singer best known for his mid-1970s single "Black Star Liners" and the album of the same name.-Biography:...
  
  
• June Lodge
• Jimmy London
  Jimmy London
  Jimmy London is a reggae singer who first recorded in the late 1960s, and achieved chart success both in Jamaica and the United Kingdom in the early and mid-1970s.-The Inspirations:...
  
  
• Lone Ranger
  Lone Ranger (musician)
  Lone Ranger is a Jamaican reggae deejay who recorded nine albums between the late 1970s and mid-1980s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Luciano
  Luciano (singer)
  Luciano is a Jamaican second generation roots reggae artist and poet....
  
  
• Little Kevin
• Locomondo
  Locomondo
  Locomondo is a seven member band based in Athens, Greece. Their name loosely means "Crazy World," from the Spanish word "loco" and the Italian word "mondo" . Their music can be tagged as reggae or ska. It is the first band in Greece that fused the Caribbean sound together with Greek musical elements...
  
  

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• Bob Marley
  Bob Marley
  Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...
  
  
• Mad Cobra
  Mad Cobra
  Ewart Everton Brown , better known by his stage name of Mad Cobra or simply Cobra is a Jamaican reggae musician.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mad Lion
  Mad Lion
  Oswald Priest, better known as Mad Lion, is a dancehall, ragga musician and rapper. He frequently collaborates with fellow hip hop artist KRS-One — most recently on a DVD promoting the Temple of Hiphop...
  
  
• Mad Professor
  Mad Professor
  Mad Professor is a dub music producer and engineer known for his original productions and remix work. He is considered one of the leading producers of dub music’s second generation and was instrumental in transitioning dub into the digital age. He is a prolific producer, contributing to or...
  
  
• Madness
  Madness (band)
  In 1979, the band recorded the Lee Thompson composition "The Prince". The song, like the band's name, paid homage to their idol, Prince Buster. The song was released through 2 Tone Records, the label of The Specials founder Jerry Dammers. The song was a surprise hit, peaking in the UK music charts...
  
  
• Mafia & Fluxy
  Mafia & Fluxy
  Mafia & Fluxy are a United Kingdom reggae rhythm section and production team consisting of brothers Leroy and David Heywood , whose careers began with London reggae band The Instigators in 1977...
  
  
• Carl Malcolm
  Carl Malcolm
  Carl Malcolm is a Jamaican reggae singer and percussionist.-Biography:Malcolm initially learned the keyboard, picking up skills on the instrument at his local Methodist church. He attended St...
  
  
• Macka B
  Macka B
  Macka B is a British-born reggae artist, performer and activist with a career spanning thirty years in the United Kingdom and Jamaica. According to AllMusic.com “Macka B was one of Britain's most influential dancehall toasters.”...
  
  
• Damian Marley
  Damian Marley
  Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley is a Jamaican reggae artist who has won three Grammy awards. Damian is the youngest son of Bob Marley....
  
  
• Damian "Junior Gong" Marley
• Julian Marley
  Julian Marley
  Julian Ricardo Marley is an English Jamaican reggae musician. He is the son of Bob Marley and a Bajan mother, Lucy Pounder. He is a member of the Rastafari movement.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ky-Mani Marley
  Ky-Mani Marley
  Ky-mani is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist whose east African name means Adventurous Traveler. The only child of table tennis champion Anita Belnavis and reggae icon Bob Marley, Ky-mani Marley was born in Falmouth, Jamaica...
  
  
• Rita Marley
  Rita Marley
  Alpharita Constantia Anderson , better known as Rita Marley, and sometimes called "Nana Rita", is the widow of reggae legend/musician Bob Marley, and a member of the trio the I Threes, Bob Marley's backup singers.-Biography:...
  
  
• Stephen Marley
  Stephen Marley (musician)
  Stephen Robert Nesta "Raggamuffin" Marley is a Jamaican American musician and the son of reggae legend Bob Marley and his wife Rita Marley. He is a five-time Grammy award winner as an artist, producer, and member of Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers.-Life and career:Marley was born in Wilmington,...
  
  
• Ziggy Marley
  Ziggy Marley
  David "Ziggy" Marley is a Jamaican musician and leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. He is the oldest son of famed reggae musician Bob Marley...
  
  
• Larry Marshall
• Wayne Marshall
  Wayne Marshall (deejay)
  Wayne Mitchell, better knows by his stage name Wayne Marshall is a reggae and dancehall artist from Jamaica. He is most notable for his collaborations with Sean Paul, Elephant Man and Beenie Man...
  
  
• Steven "Lenky" Marsden
  Steven "Lenky" Marsden
  Steven "Lenky" Marsden is a Jamaican-born music producer and musician who specializes primarily in dancehall reggae music. He also arranges and remixes pop and hip hop songs. Marsden is the founder of the Jamaica-based label, 40/40 Records and was a former member of singjay Buju Banton's band.He is...
  
  
• Junior Marvin
  Junior Marvin
  Junior Marvin also known as Junior Marvin-Hanson, Junior Hanson and Junior Kerr. He is a Jamaican born guitarist and singer and is best known for his association with Bob Marley and The Wailers. He started his career as Junior Marvin with the band Hanson in 1973...
  
  
• Jah Mason
  Jah Mason
  Andre Johnson , better known by his stage name Jah Mason, also known as Iron Mason and Fire Mason, is a reggae singer/deejay from Jamaica, active as a recording artist since 1991.-Biography:...
  
  
• Massive Dread
  Massive Dread
  Massive Dread is a reggae deejay who first recorded in the late 1970s for Tapper Zukie, and came to prominence in the early 1980s, touring with Byron Lee and The Dragonaires...
  
  
• Matisyahu
  Matisyahu
  Matthew Paul Miller , better known by his Hebrew name and stage name Matisyahu, is an American Hasidic Jewish reggae and alternative rock musician....
  
  
• Matumbi
  Matumbi (band)
  Matumbi were one of top British reggae bands of the 1970s and early 1980s, and are best known as the first successful band of guitarist and record producer Dennis Bovell.-History:...
  
  
• Mavado
  Mavado (singer)
  David Constantine Brooks , better known by his stage name Mavado, is a Jamaican musician, actor, DJ and music producer.- Biography :...
  
  
• The Maytals
  Toots & the Maytals
  Toots and the Maytals, originally called simply The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and reggae vocal groups. According to Sandra Brennan at Allmusic, "The Maytals were key figures in reggae music...
  
  
• The Maytones
  The Maytones
  The Maytones are a Jamaican reggae vocal duo who were active between the late 1960s and until 1980.-History:...
  
  
• Tommy McCook
  Tommy McCook
  Tommy McCook was a Jamaican saxophonist. A founding member of The Skatalites, he also directed The Supersonics for Duke Reid, and backed many sessions for Bunny Lee or with The Revolutionaries at Channel One Studios in the 1970s.-Biography:McCook was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to Jamaica in...
  
  
• Freddie McGregor
  Freddie McGregor
  Freddie McGregor has been variously a singer, musician and producer. According to Allmusic he is one of reggae's most durable and soulful singers, with a steady career that started in the 1960s, when he was just seven years old.-Biography:In 1963 he joined with Ernest Wilson and Peter Austin to...
  
  
• Freddie McKay
  Freddie McKay
  Freddie McKay was a Jamaican singer, whose career spanned the rocksteady and reggae eras.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bitty McLean
  Bitty McLean
  Bitty McLean is a British/Jamaican reggae, lovers rock and ragga musician. He is best known for his three UK Top 10 hits in 1993 and 1994, including his debut offering "It Keeps Rainin' ".-Career:...
  
  
• Enos McLeod
  Enos McLeod
  Enos McLeod is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer whose career dates to the mid-1960s.-Biography:McLeod was born in 1946 in Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica, and before his career in music he trained as a cabinet-maker and a boxer. His debut release was "Mackie", which was produced by Sid...
  
  
• Me & You
  Me & You (band)
  -History:Me and You come from a musical family, discovered by Dennis Brown, they began their career in 1974, he, Alton Ellis, Castro Brown and Granville Blake produced two albums, Natty Dread and Natty Dread Version which have recently been released for the first time. They then continued their...
  
  
• The Meditations
  The Meditations
  The Meditations are a reggae vocal harmony group from Jamaica formed in late 1974. They have released several studio albums and are still performing in the 2000s and today.-History:...
  
  
• The Melodians
  The Melodians
  The Melodians were a reggae band formed in the Greenwich Town area of Kingston, Jamaica in 1965, by Tony Brevett , Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton...
  
  
• Merger
• Peter Metro
  Peter Metro
  Peter Metro is a reggae deejay, who released five albums in the 1980s.-Biography:Initially performing under the name Peter Ranking, he changed his name when he discovered that another deejay was using that name, and since he was resident deejay on the Metromedia sound system, he chose the name...
  
  
• The Mexicano
• Michigan & Smiley
  Michigan & Smiley
  Michigan and Smiley were a Jamaican singing combo of the late 1970s first wave of dancehall music, consisting of Papa Michigan and General Smiley .-Career:...
  
  
• Midnite
  Midnite
  Midnite is a roots reggae band hailing from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, which has been playing since 1989.The band's music follows in tradition with the roots reggae bands of 1970s Jamaica. The lyrical portions of Midnite's compositions are characterized as the "chant and call" style which...
  
  
• The Mighty Diamonds
  The Mighty Diamonds
  Mighty Diamonds are a Jamaican harmony trio, recording roots reggae with a strong Rastafarian influence. The group, which comprised Donald "Tabby" Shaw, Fitzroy "Bunny" Simpson, and Lloyd "Judge" Ferguson, was formed in 1969, and remains together as of 2010...
  
  
• Mikey Dread
  Mikey Dread
  Michael George Campbell , better known as Mikey Dread, was a Jamaican singer, producer, and broadcaster. He was one of the most influential performers and innovators in reggae music...
  
  
• Jacob Miller
  Jacob Miller
  Jacob Miller was a Jamaican reggae artist who first recorded with Clement Dodd. While pursuing a prolific solo career, he became the lead singer for reggae group Inner Circle with whom he recorded until his death in a car accident at the age of 27.-Biography:Jacob Miller was born in Mandeville,...
  
  
• Millie
  Millie (singer)
  Millie is a Jamaican singer-songwriter, often known as "Little Millie Small", and in the United States as "Millie Small", and is best known as the singer of the 1964 hit, "My Boy Lollipop".-Career:...
  
  
• Echo Minott
• Sugar Minott
  Sugar Minott
  Lincoln Barrington "Sugar" Minott was a Jamaican reggae singer, producer and sound-system operator.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mishka
  Mishka
  Mishka is an internationally known reggae artist from Bermuda. He released his first self-titled album Mishka in 1999 and had a hit single in the UK with "Give You All The Love". He is currently signed to Matthew McConaughey's record label, j.k. livin, and is touring in support of his latest...
  
  
• Misty in Roots
  Misty in Roots
  Misty in Roots began life as a Southall-based British roots reggae band in the early 1970s. Their first album was 1979's Live at the Counter Eurovision, a record full of Biblical Rastafarian songs. It was championed by BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, helping to bring roots reggae to a white audience...
  
  
• Jackie Mittoo
  Jackie Mittoo
  Jackie Mittoo was a Jamaican keyboardist, songwriter and musical director. He was a founding member of The Skatalites and was a mentor to many younger performers, primarily through his work as musical director for the Studio One record label.-Biography:He was born Donat Roy Mittoo in Browns Town,...
  
  
• Fantan Mojah
  Fantan Mojah
  Fantan Mojah , is a Jamaican reggae singer.-Biography:Owen Moncrieffe aka Fantan Mojah was born in St Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. To gain experience, he took a job working with a traveling soundsystem, and performed songs during soundchecks. He adopted the name Mad Killer, in an homage to one of his...
  
  
• Derrick Morgan
  Derrick Morgan
  Derrick Morgan is a musical artist popular in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked with Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley, and Jimmy Cliff in the rhythm and blues and ska genres, and he also performed rocksteady and skinhead reggae.-Biography:In 1957 Morgan entered the Vere Johns Opportunity Hour, a talent...
  
  
• Morgan Heritage
  Morgan Heritage
  Morgan Heritage is a reggae band formed in 1994 by five children of reggae artist Denroy Morgan, namely Peter Morgan, Una Morgan, Roy "Gramps" Morgan, Nakhamyah "Lukes" Morgan and Memmalatel "Mr. Mojo" Morgan. In two decades, they have had a number of successful reggae albums.-Career:Morgan...
  
  
• The Morwells
  The Morwells
  The Morwells aka Morwell Unlimited were a Jamaican reggae band formed in 1973 by Maurice Wellington and Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont. They disbanded in the early 1980s with members going on to form the Roots Radics.-History:...
  
  
• Pablo Moses
  Pablo Moses
  -Biography:Pablo Moses has released a number of records over several decades, but he is best known for his debut, 1975's Revolutionary Dream, produced by Geoffrey Chung, which included "I Man A Grasshopper", engineered at The Black Ark by Lee "Scratch" Perry. His 1980 follow up, A Song, was well...
  
  
• Judy Mowatt
  Judy Mowatt
  Judy Mowatt was born in the year 1948 in Gordon Town, St. Andrew Jamaica. She is an internationally acclaimed reggae artist who rose to fame as 1/3 of the trio the I THREE who were the Back-Ground vocalists for Bob Marley.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mr. Vegas
  Mr. Vegas
  Mr. Vegas is a Jamaican dancehall star.-Biography:Smith was born in Kingston in 1974. The moniker "Mr. Vegas" was given to Smith by his schoolyard football-mates, who thought that he kicked the ball like a Las Vegas dancer...
  
  
• Hugh Mundell
  Hugh Mundell
  Hugh Mundell was a Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter.-Biography:Mundell was introduced to reggae by reggae performer and producer Boris Gardiner who was a friend of the family...
  
  
• Junior Murvin
  Junior Murvin
  Junior Murvin is a Jamaican reggae musician. He is best known for the single "Police and Thieves", produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry in 1976. Murvin's soaring voice and the infectious rhythm made "Police and Thieves" into an international hit during the summer of that year. It peaked at #23 in the...
  
  
• Musical Youth
  Musical Youth
  Musical Youth are a British reggae band. The group originally formed in 1979 at Duddeston Manor School in Birmingham, UK. They are best remembered for their successful 1982 Grammy-nominated single, "Pass the Dutchie". The group featured two sets of brothers, Kelvin and Michael Grant, plus Junior...
  
  
• Mutabaruka
  Mutabaruka
  Mutabaruka is a dub poet. His name comes from the Rwandan language and translates as "one who is always victorious". He lives in Potosi District, St. James with his significant other, Yvonne, and their two childern. Mutabaruka continues to perform and write poems on every issue known to man...
  
  
• Cedric Myton
  Cedric Myton
  Cedric Myton born in Jamaica is a Reggae musician and Rastafarian. Myton played with Prince Lincoln Thompson in The Tartans in the early 1970s until they apparently fell out. Cedric Myton claims he was one of the backing harmony vocals on Prince Lincoln's Humanity album recorded in 1975, but he is...
  
  

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• Nando Boom
  Nando Boom
  Nando Boom is a Reggaeton and Reggae en Español group from Panamá led by Fernando Brown.Brown began singing in 1977, and Nando Boom started in 1985...
  
  
• Natasja Saad
  Natasja Saad
  Natasja Saad , also known as Dou T, Double T and Natasja, was a Danish rapper and reggae singer whose vocals on a popular reggae fusion remix of "Calabria" gained her worldwide fame and a number one spot on Billboards Hot Dance Airplay chart six months after her death in a car accident.- Early life...
  
  
• Johnny Nash
  Johnny Nash
  John Lester "Johnny" Nash, Jr. is an American pop singer-songwriter, best known in the US for his 1972 hit, "I Can See Clearly Now". He was also the first non-Jamaican to record reggae music in Kingston, Jamaica.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Natural Black
  Natural Black
  Natural Black, born Mortimer Softley on March 16, 1975 in Georgetown, Guyana, is a reggae singer from Guyana.-Biography:Mortimer Softley moved to Jamaica in 1995 to pursue his dream of being a reggae singer. In Guyana he hailed from Linden in the community of All Boy Town and was nicknamed Black...
  
  
• Nicodemus
  Nicodemus (musician)
  Cecil Wellington , better known as Nicodemus, was a Jamaican reggae deejay who released a string of albums in the 1980s and 1990s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Nigger Kojak
  Nigger Kojak
  Nigger Kojak is a reggae deejay and singer.-Biography:Perch began his career under the name Pretty Boy Floyd, deejaying on various sound systems...
  
  
• Ninjaman
  Ninjaman
  Ninjaman, alias Don Gorgon, is a popular dancehall deejay / Actor, known for his controversial and pro-gun lyrics and his stuttering and melodramatic style...
  
  
• Nitty Gritty
  Nitty Gritty
  Glen Augustus Holness , otherwise known by his stage name Nitty Gritty, was a popular Reggae singer. Born in the August Town section of Kingston, Jamaica, he was the second of eleven children born to religious parents....
  
  
• George Nooks
  George Nooks
  George Nooks, aka Prince Mohamed, Prince Mohammed, or George Knooks is a reggae singer who initially found fame as a deejay.-Biography:...
  
  
• No-Maddz
  No-Maddz
  No-Maddz was form at their high school alma mater Kingston College in 2000. The premiere Dub Poetry group comprises of Sheldon Shepherd, Everaldo "Evie" Creary , Christopher "Birdheye" Gordon, and O'neil Peart. No-Maddz music is no doubtingly something new. It fuses their unique Dub Poetry style...
  
  
• Nakupenda Roots
• Natiruts
  Natiruts
  Natiruts are a popular Brazilian Reggae band, formed in Brasília in 1996.-Members:* Alexandre Carlo * Luís Mauricio * Juninho -Albums:* Nativus * Povo Brasileiro * Verbalize...
  
  

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• Augustus Pablo
  Augustus Pablo
  Horace Swaby , known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer, melodica player and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He popularized the use of the melodica in reggae music...
  
  
• Triston Palmer
  Triston Palmer
  Triston Palmer aka Triston or Tristan Palma is a reggae singer/deejay active since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pan Head
  Pan Head
  Pan Head was a ragga/dancehall deejay.-Biography:...
  
  
• Papa Dee
  Papa Dee
  David Christopher Daniel Wahlgren , better known by the stage name Papa Dee, is a Swedish rap, ragga and dancehall musician...
  
  
• Papa San
  Papa San
  Tyrone Thompson, better known as Papa San, is a Jamaican reggae, dancehall and gospel singer.- Biography :Born in 1966, he was raised by his Rastafarian grandmother and turned to Christianity in 1997...
  
  
• The Paragons
  The Paragons
  The Paragons were a rocksteady band from Kingston, Jamaica, active in the 1960s. Their most famous track was "The Tide Is High", written by band member, John Holt.-Career:...
  
  
• Ken Parker
  Ken Parker (musician)
  Ken Parker is a Jamaican musician who first recorded in the 1960s.-Biography:Like many of Jamaica's singers of the era, Parker began by singing in church, where his father was a preacher. He formed a group called the Blues Benders in the mid-1960s, and their first recording was "Honeymoon by the...
  
  
• Lloyd Parks
  Lloyd Parks
  Lloyd Parks is a reggae vocalist and bass player.-Biography:Parks' interest in music was fuelled by his uncle Dourie Bryan, who played in a calypso band, and Parks became the band's singer...
  
  
• Frankie Paul
  Frankie Paul
  Paul Blake , better known as Frankie Paul, is one of Jamaica's best-loved and popular dancehall reggae artists. Born blind, he has been dubbed by some 'The Jamaican Stevie Wonder'.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sean Paul
  Sean Paul
  Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques , who performs under stage name Sean Paul, is a Jamaican pop rap and reggae singer.-1973–1996: Early life:...
  
  
• Dawn Penn
  Dawn Penn
  Dawn Penn is a Jamaican reggae singer.-Career:Dawn Penn's earliest recordings were for Prince Buster around 1966. In 1967 she recorded and released the rocksteady single, "You Don't Love Me" produced by Coxsone Dodd at Studio One...
  
  
• Pepper
  Pepper (band)
  Pepper is a rock band originally from Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The band's music is often classified as a combination of reggae, dub and rock. The band consists of vocalist/guitarist Kaleo Wassman, vocalist/bassist Bret Bollinger, and drummer Yesod Williams...
  
  
• Lee "Scratch" Perry
• Pinchers
  Pinchers
  Pinchers born Delroy Thompson, 12 April 1965, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.He released one album as a teenager in Jamaica for Blue Trac Records, before moving to the UK in 1985....
  
  
• Dwight Pinkney
  Dwight Pinkney
  Dwight Pinkney , also known as Brother Dee, is a Jamaican guitarist best known for his work as a session musician and as a member of Zap Pow and the Roots Radics, who since 1999 has recorded as a solo artist.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Pioneers
  The Pioneers (band)
  The Pioneers are a Jamaican reggae vocal trio, whose main period of success was in the 1960s. The trio has had different line-ups, and still occasionally performs.-Founding and early years: 1962-1967:...
  
  
• Pliers
  Pliers
  Pliers are a hand tool used to hold objects firmly, for bending, or physical compression. Generally, pliers consist of a pair of metal first-class levers joined at a fulcrum positioned closer to one end of the levers, creating short jaws on one side of the fulcrum, and longer handles on the other...
  
  
• Maxi Priest
  Maxi Priest
  Max Alfred "Maxi" Priest is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with a R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion, and became one of the first international successes who regularly dabbled in the genre as well as being one of the most...
  
  
• Prince Allah
• Prince Buster
  Prince Buster
  Cecil Bustamente Campbell, O.D. , better known as Prince Buster, and also known by his Muslim name Muhammed Yusef Ali, is a musician from Kingston, Jamaica. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska and rocksteady music...
  
  
• Prince Far I
  Prince Far I
  Prince Far I was a Jamaican reggae deejay, producer and a Rastafarian. He was known for his gruff voice and critical assessment of the Jamaican government. His track "Heavy Manners" used lyrics against measures initiated towards violent crime.-Biography:He was born Michael James Williams in...
  
  
• Prince Francis
• Prince Hammer
• Prince Jazzbo
  Prince Jazzbo
  Prince Jazzbo is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay and producer.Prince Jazzbo began recording with Coxsone Dodd's Studio One label in the early 1970s...
  
  
• Prince Mohammed
• Michael Prophet
  Michael Prophet
  Michael Prophet is a roots reggae singer known for his "crying" tenor vocal style, whose recording career began in 1977.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Pyramids
  Symarip
  Symarip were a ska and reggae band from the United Kingdom, originating in the late 1960s, when Frank Pitter and Michael Thomas founded the band as The Bees. The band's name was originally spelled Simaryp, which is an approximate reversal of the word 'pyramids'...
  
  

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• Raappana (musician)
  Raappana (musician)
  Janne Pöyhönen, better known by his stage name Raappana, is a Finnish reggae artist from Lahti. His first studio album Päivä on nuori was released on October 3, 2007. It peaked at #18 on the Finnish Album Chart. His second studio album Maapallo was released on September 1, 2010.- External links :...
  
  
• Jack Radics
• Ernest Ranglin
  Ernest Ranglin
  Ernest Ranglin O.D. is a Jamaican guitarist and composer. Best known for his session work at the famed Studio One, Ranglin helped give birth to the ska genre in the late 1950s...
  
  
• Ranking Dread
  Ranking Dread
  Ranking Dread was a Jamaican reggae deejay who grew up in the Kingston ghettos of Rema and Tivoli. He became famous for his work with the Ray Symbolic sound system in the 1970s...
  
  
• Ranking Joe
  Ranking Joe
  Ranking Joe aka Little Joe is a reggae deejay who rose to prominence in the 1970s and had continuing success in the 1980s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ranking Roger
  Ranking Roger
  Ranking Roger is an English musician. He was a vocalist in the 1980s two-tone band, The Beat and General Public...
  
  
• Cutty Ranks
  Cutty Ranks
  Philip Thomas, , better known as Cutty Ranks is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.-Biography:Thomas was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1965. He began his career as a reggae artist at the age of 14 with the Gemini sound system, before moving on to work with Tony Rebel's Rebel Tone and Papa Roots,...
  
  
• Shabba Ranks
  Shabba Ranks
  Shabba Ranks is a Jamaican dancehall musician.He was one of the most popular dancehall artists of his generation. He was also one of the first Jamaican deejays to gain worldwide acceptance, and recognition for his 'slack' lyrical expressions and content, when "ridin' di riddim"...
  
  
• The Rastafarians
  The Rastafarians
  The Rastafarians was a California-based reggae group founded by Jamaican natives Michael Ashley aka Haile Maskel and Patrick Houchen aka Shaka Man , and Californian Herb Daly in Santa Cruz, California in 1980...
  
  
• RastaMiles
• Ras Michael
  Ras Michael
  Ras Michael is a Jamaican reggae singer and Nyabinghi specialist. He also performs under the name of Dadawah.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ras Midas
  Ras Midas
  Ras Midas is a reggae artist and member of the Rastafari movement most famous for his album Rastaman in Exile. He went to the United Kingdom to live age 13...
  
  
• Ras Shiloh
  Ras Shiloh
  Ras Shiloh, born Thomas Williams on June 3, 1974 in Brooklyn, United States, is a reggae artist who made From Rasta to you in 2002 and Only King Selassie I in 2007 concerning Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia the God reincarnate or the king by holy appointment of the Rastafari movement...
  
  
• Danny Ray
• Rayvon
  Rayvon
  Rayvon is a Barbadian reggae singer, known for his work with Shaggy.-Singles:*1992 "Big Up" *1994 "No Guns, No Murder" Hi.*1995 "In The Summertime" #5 UK...
  
  
• Tony Rebel
  Tony Rebel
  Tony Rebel is a Jamaican reggae deejay. He was initially a singer, appearing as Papa Tony or Tony Ranking in local talent contests and on sound systems including Sugar Minott's 'Youth Promotion'...
  
  
• Rebelution
  Rebelution (band)
  Rebelution is a reggae band from Santa Barbara, California. Current members of Rebelution are Eric Rachmany, Rory Carey, Wesley Finley, and Marley Williams...
  
  
• Red Rat
  Red Rat
  Wallace Wilson , better known by the stage name Red Rat, is a Jamaican dancehall reggae recording and performing artist. He was born in Saint Ann's Bay, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica...
  
  
• Danny Red
• Winston Reedy
• Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra
• Junior Reid
  Junior Reid
  Delroy "Junior" Reid is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician, best known for the songs "One Blood" and "Funny Man", as well as being the man that replaced Michael Rose as lead vocalist for Black Uhuru.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Revolutionaries
  The Revolutionaries
  The Revolutionaries is a Jamaican reggae band.-Career:Set up in 1975 as the house band of the Channel One Studios owned by Joseph Hoo Kim, The Revolutionaries with Sly Dunbar on drums and Robbie Shakespeare on bass, created the new "rockers" style that would change the whole Jamaican sound The...
  
  
• Rhythm & Sound
• Rootz Underground
• Cynthia Richards
  Cynthia Richards
  Cynthia Richards is a Jamaican singer whose career began in the 1960s.-Biography:Born in Disney Land, Kingston, Jamaica, in 1944, Richards attended the Denham Town Primary School where after impressing teachers with a performance at an end-of-term concert she was encouraged to appear on the Vere...
  
  
• Jimmy Riley
  Jimmy Riley
  Jimmy Riley is a Jamaican singer who in addition to recording solo has also been a member of the Sensations and The Uniques.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tarrus Riley
  Tarrus Riley
  Tarrus Riley is a Jamaican-American reggae singer, the son of Jimmy Riley.-Biography:...
  
  
• Winston Riley
  Winston Riley
  Winston Riley worked as a songwriter and record producer of Jamaican music. According to the Jamaica Gleaner, Riley has a claim to being the most successful reggae producer of all-time.-Biography:...
  
  
• Johnny Ringo
  Johnny Ringo (musician)
  Johnny Ringo was a reggae/dancehall deejay active from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rico Rodriguez
  Rico Rodriguez
  Rico Rodriguez MBE , also known as Reco or El Reco, is a ska and reggae trombonist. He has recorded with many producers, including Karl Pitterson, Prince Buster, and Lloyd 'Matador' Daley...
  
  
• Max Romeo
  Max Romeo
  Max Romeo is a reggae and roots reggae recording artist who has achieved chart success in his home country, and in the UK. Romeo was responsible for launching an entirely new sub-genre of reggae, whose overtly suggestive lyrics caused an outcry but took a massive hold of the music scene regardless...
  
  
• Gene Rondo
• The Roots Radics
• Michael Rose
• Junior Ross
• Keith Rowe
• The Royals
  The Royals (group)
  The Royals were a Jamaican roots reggae vocal group formed in 1964 by Roy Cousins. They continued to record, with a varying line-up until the mid-1980s.-History:...
  
  
• The Rudies
• Bruce Ruffin
  Bruce Ruffin
  Bruce Ruffin is a rocksteady and reggae artist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Devon Russell
  Devon Russell
  Devon Russell was a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer and record producer who recorded between the 1960s and the 1990s, both as a solo artist and as a member of The Tartans and Cultural Roots.-Biography:...
  
  

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• Shazman
• Sanchez
  Sanchez (singer)
  Sanchez is a Jamaican Reggae and dancehall singer-Biography:Jackson was given the nickname 'Sanchez' due to his football skills - a reference to a footballer of that name. After working with several Kingston sound systems he began recording and had his first hit with "Lady In Red", recorded for...
  
  
• Scientist
  Scientist (musician)
  Scientist, born Hopeton Brown in Kingston, Jamaica, 1960 , was a protégé of King Tubby , one of the originators of dub music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Errol Scorcher
  Errol Scorcher
  Errol Scorcher is a reggae deejay.-Biography:Scorcher worked as a deejay on several sound systems from the early 1970s. Although his first single, "Leggo Mi Hand Babylon" was not a commercial success, he had several hits in the mid-1970s with tracks such as "Jolly Bus-Ting" and "Engineers Affair"...
  
  
• Scotty
  Scotty (musician)
  Scotty performed as a reggae vocalist and deejay.-Biography:...
  
  
• Screwdriver
  Screwdriver (musician)
  Screwdriver is a reggae artist active since the mid 1980s.-Biography:Born Dalton Lindo in Saint James Parish in 1960, in the mid-1980s, Lindo travelled to Kingston, where he met and was encouraged in his musical career by Beres Hammond...
  
  
• B.B. Seaton
  B.B. Seaton
  Harris Lloyd "B.B." Seaton , also known as "Bibby" is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer who was a member of The Gaylads, The Astronauts, Conscious Minds, and The Messengers , and who has had a long solo career which dates back to 1960.-Biography:Seaton first recorded as a solo...
  
  
• Seeed
  Seeed
  Seeed is a German reggae/dancehall band from Berlin. Founded in 1998, they have become notable in Germany and its neighboring countries. Seeed and Cologne's singjay Gentleman are among Germany's most popular reggae musicians....
  
  
• Serani
  Serani
  Craig Serani Marsh, a.k.a. Serani is a dancehall artist signed to JVC Entertainment. He is best known for his involvement in Sean Paul's album The Trinity and his 2008 single No Games. Serani also released the singles Doh and She Loves Me....
  
  
• Shaggy
• Bim Sherman
  Bim Sherman
  Jarret Lloyd Vincent better known by one of his stage aliases Bim Sherman, was a Jamaican musician and singer-songwriter.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pluto Shervington
  Pluto Shervington
  Pluto Shervington, also known as Pluto , is a reggae musician, singer, engineer and producer.-Career:...
  
  
• Shinehead
  Shinehead
  Shinehead is an English-born Jamaican reggae singer/toaster/rapper.-Career:He began his music career by performing for different New York reggae dancehall sound systems in the 1980s, most notably Tony Screw's Downbeat The Ruler, based in The Bronx.His recording debut was in 1986 on the African...
  
  
• Roy Shirley
  Roy Shirley
  Roy Shirley also known as King Roy Shirley and The High Priest was a Jamaican singer whose career spanned the ska, rocksteady and reggae eras, and whose "Hold Them" is regarded by some as the first ever rocksteady song...
  
  
• Garnett Silk
• The Silvertones
  The Silvertones
  The Silvertones were a Jamaican reggae harmony group formed in 1964, best known for their recordings for Lee "Scratch" Perry in the early 1970s.-History:...
  
  
• Sister Nancy
  Sister Nancy
  Sister Nancy, aka Muma Nancy, real name Ophlin Russell-Myers, is a dancehall DJ and singer. She is known to the world as the first female dancehall DJ and was described as being a "dominating female voice for over two decades" on the dancehall scene...
  
  
• Sizzla
  Sizzla
  Sizzla Kalonji, or simply Sizzla in are de reggae musician. He is one of the most commercially and critically successful contemporary reggae artists and is well-known for his above-average prolificacy...
  
  
• The Slickers
  The Slickers
  The Slickers were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae group in the late 1960s and early 1970s.They are best known for the song, "Johnny Too Bad", which featured on the film soundtrack of The Harder They Come, and which was sung with additional lyrics by John Martyn on his Grace and Danger album.The...
  
  
• Sly and Robbie
  Sly and Robbie
  Sly and Robbie is the prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production team of drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare who joined in the mid 1970s after having established themselves separately in Jamaica as professional musicians...
  
  
• Leroy Smart
  Leroy Smart
  -Biography:Smart was born in 1952 and orphaned aged 2. He was raised at Maxfield Park Children's Home and educated at Alpha Boys School, where he studied singing, drums and dancing....
  
  
• Smiley Culture
  Smiley Culture
  David Victor Emmanuel , better known as Smiley Culture, was a British reggae singer and deejay known for his 'fast chat' style. During a relatively brief period of fame and success, he produced two of the most critically acclaimed reggae singles of the 1980s...
  
  
• Ernie Smith
  Ernie Smith (singer)
  Ernie Smith is a reggae singer, with a deep baritone voice, who had his greatest success in the late 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:Smith was born in Kingston and raised in St. Ann...
  
  
• Mikey Smith
  Mikey Smith
  Michael Smith, usually referred to as Mikey Smith , was a Jamaican dub poet. Along with Linton Kwesi Johnson, and Mutabaruka, he was one of the most well-known dub poets. In 1978, Michael Smith represented Jamaica at the 11th World Festival of Youth and Students in Cuba. His album Mi Cyaan Believe...
  
  
• Slim Smith
  Slim Smith
  Slim Smith was a ska, rocksteady and reggae singer. In their book Reggae: The Rough Guide , Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton described Smith as "the greatest vocalist to emerge in the rocksteady era".-Biography:Smith first came to prominence as a member of the Victors Youth Band, who were highly...
  
  
• Wayne Smith
  Wayne Smith (musician)
  Wayne Smith is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician.-Biography:His 1985 recording of " Sleng Teng", is generally regarded as the beginning of ragga style reggae. The rhythm was created on a Casio MT-40 and is based on the riff from Eddie Cochran's "Somethin' Else"...
  
  
• Snow
  Snow (musician)
  Darrin O'Brien , better known by his stage name Snow, is a Juno Award-winning Canadian rap and reggae musician. He is best known for his 1992 single "Informer", which reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.-Life and work:...
  
  
• SOJA
• Soul Syndicate
  Soul Syndicate
  Soul Syndicate, originally called the Rhythm Raiders, were one of the top reggae session bands in Jamaica from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s.-History:...
  
  
• Spanner Banner
• The Specials
  The Specials
  The Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups...
  
  
• Spectacular
  Spectacular (singer)
  Spectacular is a Jamaican reggae artist and member of the Rastafari movement who began his career in 1993. In 2005 he released an album called Evil hymns, Rusty Nails. He has worked extensively in Europe and worked with Lutan Fyah, amongst others.-References:...
  
  
• Mikey Spice
  Mikey Spice
  -Biography:Spice sang in his father's church from age seven, and learned to play guitar, bass, drums, trumpet, piano, saxophone, flute, and harp as a youngster. Spice began a career as a reggae musician in 1985...
  
  
• Richie Spice
  Richie Spice
  Richie Spice is a Jamaican reggae artist. He is a member of the Rastafari movement. Some of his most famous songs include, "Youth Dem Cold", "Groovin' My Girl", "Earth A Run Red", "Marijuana" and "The Plane Land"...
  
  
• Steel Pulse
  Steel Pulse
  Steel Pulse is a roots reggae musical band. They originally formed at Handsworth Wood Boys School, in Birmingham, England, composed of David Hinds , Basil Gabbidon , and Ronald McQueen .-History:...
  
  
• Steely & Clevie
  Steely & Clevie
  Steely & Clevie, aka Wycliffe Johnson and Cleveland Browne, was a Jamaican dancehall reggae production duo. It worked with artists such as the Specials, Gregory Peck , Bounty Killer, Elephant Man and No Doubt....
  
  
• Tena Stelin
• Richie Stephens
  Richie Stephens
  Richard Frederick Freeman Stephenson III, better known as Richie Stephens is a Jamaican R&B, dancehall and reggae singer and producer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tanya Stephens
  Tanya Stephens
  Vivienne Tanya Stephens, better known by her stage name Tanya Stephens is an influential reggae artist who emerged in the late 1990s...
  
  
• Keith Sterling
• Lester Sterling
  Lester Sterling
  Lester Sterling is a Jamaican trumpet and saxophone player.-Biography:Like many Jamaican musicians of his generation, Sterling attended the Alpha Boys School....
  
  
• Roman Stewart
  Roman Stewart
  Roman Stewart, also known as Romeo Stewart and 'Mr. Special' was a reggae singer. Stewart won the Festival Song Contest in 1975.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tinga Stewart
  Tinga Stewart
  Tinga Stewart is a reggae singer. Stewart won the Festival Song Contest three times, twice as a singer and once as a songwriter.-Biography:...
  
  
• Super Cat
  Super Cat
  Super Cat is a deejay most popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s dancehall movement. Super Cat was born in Jamaica and was nicknamed Wild Apache. His nickname, the "Wild Apache" was given to him by his mentor Early B...
  
  
• Symarip
  Symarip
  Symarip were a ska and reggae band from the United Kingdom, originating in the late 1960s, when Frank Pitter and Michael Thomas founded the band as The Bees. The band's name was originally spelled Simaryp, which is an approximate reversal of the word 'pyramids'...
  
  

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• Lynn Taitt
  Lynn Taitt
  Lynn Taitt was a reggae guitarist born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, closely associated with Jamaican rocksteady music.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Tamlins
  The Tamlins
  The Tamlins were a 1970s Jamaican reggae and dub vocal group. Composed of Carlton Smith, Junior Moore, and Derrick Lara, The Tamlins are among the most recognized back-up singers in reggae, especially for their years of international touring in support of Peter Tosh...
  
  
• Rod Taylor
  Rod Taylor (singer)
  Rod Taylor is a reggae singer and producer, born in Jamaica, West Indies-Biography:After forming a short-lived group called The Aliens with Barry Brown and Johnny Lee, Taylor recorded his first single, "Bad Man Comes and Goes" in 1975 for Ossie Hibbert...
  
  
• The Techniques
  The Techniques
  The Techniques were a Jamaican rocksteady vocal group mainly active in the 1960s.-History:The group was formed by Winston Riley in 1962 while still at school, with the initial line-up also featuring Slim Smith, Franklyn White, and Frederick Waite...
  
  
• The Tennors
  The Tennors
  The Tennors were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae vocal group in the 1960s and '70s. Among the band's hits was "Ride Yu Donkey" in 1968. The song was featured on the soundtrack to the 2005 film Broken Flowers.-History:...
  
  
• Tenor Saw
  Tenor saw
  Tenor Saw was a prominent dancehall singer in the 1980s, and one of the most influential singers of the early digital reggae era...
  
  
• Third World
  Third World (band)
  Third World is a Jamaican reggae band formed in 1973. Their sound is influenced by soul, funk and disco.-History:Third World started when keyboard player Michael "Ibo" Cooper and guitarist Stephen "Cat" Coore, who had originally played in The Alley Cats then Inner Circle, subsequently left to form...
  
  
• Jah Thomas
  Jah Thomas
  Nkrumah "Jah" Thomas is a reggae deejay and record producer who first came to prominence in the 1970s, later setting up his own Midnight Rock and Nura labels.-Biography:...
  
  
• Nicky Thomas
  Nicky Thomas
  Nicky Thomas was a reggae singer who enjoyed considerable chart success in the 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Caroll Thompson
• Lincoln Thompson
  Lincoln Thompson
  Prince Lincoln Thompson, known as Sax, was a Jamaican singer, musician and songwriter with the reggae band the Royal Rasses, and a member of the Rastafari movement...
  
  
• Linval Thompson
  Linval Thompson
  Linval Thompson is a Jamaican reggae and dub musician and record producer.-Biography:Thompson was raised in Kingston, Jamaica, but spent time with his mother in Queens, New York, and his recording career began around the age of 20 with the self-released "No Other Woman," recorded in Brooklyn, New...
  
  
• Eddie Thornton
  Eddie Thornton
  Edward Thornton , better known as "Tan Tan", is a Jamaican trumpeter whose career began in the 1950s.-Biography:Thornton was born in 1932 and attended the Alpha Boys School. In the 1950s, he played in the Roy Coulton band along with Don Drummond...
  
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• Tiken Jah Fakoly
  Tiken Jah Fakoly
  Tiken Jah Fakoly is a reggae singer from Côte d'Ivoire.Tiken Jah was born into a family of griots and christened Doumbia Moussa Fakoly on June 23, 1968 in Odienné, north-western Côte d'Ivoire. He discovered reggae at an early age, assembling his first group, Djelys, in 1987...
  
  
• T.O.K.
  T.O.K.
  T.O.K. is a dancehall group hailing from Kingston, Jamaica. The group consists of Alistaire "Alex" McCalla, Roshaun "Bay-C" Clarke, Craig "Craigy T" Thompson, and Xavier "Flexx" Davidson...
  
  
• Toots & the Maytals
  Toots & the Maytals
  Toots and the Maytals, originally called simply The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and reggae vocal groups. According to Sandra Brennan at Allmusic, "The Maytals were key figures in reggae music...
  
  
• Top Cat
• Andrew Tosh
  Andrew Tosh
  Andrew Tosh , is a reggae singer and the son of the late Peter Tosh. He is the nephew of reggae singer Bunny Wailer, also an original member of The Wailers...
  
  
• Peter Tosh
  Peter Tosh
  Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh , was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers , and who afterward had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari.Peter Tosh was born in Grange Hill, Jamaica, an illegitimate child to a mother too young...
  
  
• Toyan
  Toyan
  Toyan aka Ranking Toyan was a Jamaican reggae deejay active since the mid-1970s and best known for his early 1980s recordings.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tradition
  Tradition (band)
  Tradition are a United Kingdom-based reggae band. They enjoyed success with UK reggae audiences in the late 1970s, and were signed by RCA Records. They split up in 1983 but reformed over twenty years later.-History:...
  
  
• Trinity
  Trinity (musician)
  Trinity aka Junior Brammer is a reggae deejay and producer, whose career began in the mid-1970s and continued into the 1990s.-Biography:Born in 1954, Brammer was educated at the Alpha Boys School...
  
  
• Junior Tucker
  Junior Tucker
  Leslie Tucker, known as Junior Tucker , is a Jamaican reggae singer, who started his career in secular music, but who now sings Christian reggae...
  
  
• Twinkle Brothers
  Twinkle Brothers
  The Twinkle Brothers are a Jamaican reggae band formed in 1962, and still active in the 21st century.-History:The Twinkle Brothers were formed in 1962 by brother Norman and Ralston Grant from Falmouth, Jamaica. The band was expanded with the addition of Eric Barnard , Karl Hyatt , and Albert Green...
  
  
• Tribal Seeds
  Tribal Seeds
  Tribal Seeds is a San Diego based reggae band. They released a self-titled album on February 12, 2008 which was one of the eight iTunes "Best of 2008" reggae albums....
  
  
• Tomorrows bad seeds
  Tomorrows Bad Seeds
  Tomorrows Bad Seeds is an American rock, reggae band made up of 5 musicians from Hermosa Beach, California, formed in 2004. Commonly abbreviated TBS. All their music is a collaborative effort among the band...
  
  

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• UB40
  UB40
  UB40 are a British reggae/pop band formed in 1978 in Birmingham. The band has placed more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. One of the world's best-selling music artists, UB40 have sold over 70 million records.Their hit singles...
  
  
• The Uniques
  The Uniques (Jamaican group)
  The Uniques were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae vocal group, formed in 1966 and active with varying line-ups until the late 1970s.-History:...
  
  
• Unity Pacific
• The Upsetters
  The Upsetters
  The Upsetters was the name given to the house band for Jamaican reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. The name of the band comes from Perry's nickname of Upsetter, after his song "I Am The Upsetter", a musical dismissal of his former boss Coxsone Dodd....
  
  
• U-Roy
  U-Roy
  U-Roy , OD, is a Jamaican musician, also known as The Originator. He is best known as a pioneer of toasting.-Biography:...
  
  

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• Wayne Wade
  Wayne Wade
  Wayne Wade is a roots reggae singer best known for his work with producer Yabby You in the 1970s.-Biography:Wade's career began in the mid-1970s, working with Yabby You, 1976's "Black Is Our Colour" immediately achieving success in Jamaica...
  
  
• Bunny Wailer
  Bunny Wailer
  Bunny Wailer, , also known as Bunny Livingston and affectionately as Jah B, is a singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh...
  
  
• The Wailing Souls
  The Wailing Souls
  The Wailing Souls are a Jamaican reggae vocal group still recording and performing live, whose origins date back to the 1960s.-Career:They have recorded with many top Jamaican record producers including Coxsone Dodd of Studio One, Lloyd "King Jammy" James, Henry "Junjo" Lawes, Delroy Wilson and...
  
  
• Josey Wales
  Josey Wales
  Josey Wales, born Joseph Winston Sterling in St. Mary, Jamaica is an influential Jamaican dancehall deejay. He was considered, along with Brigadier Jerry, Yellowman and sound system partner Charlie Chaplin, one of the best deejays of the 1980s....
  
  
• Leroy Wallace
  Leroy Wallace
  Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace is a Jamaican drummer who worked for several years at Studio One, and has worked with numerous reggae artists including The Gladiators, Inner Circle, Prince Far I, Sound Dimension, Gregory Isaacs, Burning Spear, Ijahman Levi and Pierpoljak. He starred as himself in the...
  
  
• Dennis Walks
• Ward 21
  Ward 21
  Ward 21 are group of dancehall musicians and producers hailing from Kingston, Jamaica, named for the psychiatric ward at the University College Hospital in Kingston. Ward 21 are renowned producers and have created hit dancehall riddims like "Badda badda", "Da Joint", "Bellyas", and "Volume" as well...
  
  
• Delroy Washington
• Chris Wayne
• E.T. Webster
• Caron Wheeler
  Caron Wheeler
  Caron Wheeler is a two-time Grammy Award winning British R&B/soul singer, who gained fame by writing and singing the lead vocals on the two biggest hits for Soul II Soul Caron Wheeler (19 January 1963) is a two-time Grammy Award winning British R&B/soul singer, who gained fame by writing and...
  
  
• Worl-A-Girl
  Worl-A-Girl
  Worl-A-Girl is a hip hop- and R&B-influenced reggae group, formed in 1991. Founding vocalists Charmaine , Miss Linda , Sabrina and Sensi released their first album in 1994...
  
  
• Willi Williams
  Willi Williams
  Willi Williams is a Jamaican reggae and dub musician and producer. He is known as the "Armagideon Man" after his hit, "Armagideon Time", first recorded in 1978 at Studio One in Kingston. The song was covered by The Clash as the flipside of their "London Calling" single.-Biography:Williams was born...
  
  
• Delroy Wilson
  Delroy Wilson
  Delroy Wilson was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer.-Biography:Wilson released his first single "Emy Lou" in 1961 for record producer, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, at the age of thirteen...
  
  
• Wingless Angels
  Wingless Angels
  Wingless Angels is an album released in 1975 and it is the eighth album by folk musician John Stewart, former member of the Kingston Trio.Recorded at Burbank Studios, Burbank, California.-Track listing:...
  
  
• Wayne Wonder
  Wayne Wonder
  Wayne Wonder is a Jamaican reggae fusion artist...
  
  
• Word, Sound and Power
  Word, Sound and Power (Reggae Band)
  Word, Sound and Power are a Jamaican reggae band, formed in 1976 as Peter Tosh's backing band after Tosh left The Wailers. They toured with Tosh in America in 1976, and backed him at the One Love Peace Concert...
  
  
• Winston Wright

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• Zap Pow
  Zap Pow
  Zap Pow were a Jamaican reggae band, whose members have included guitarist Dwight Pinkney and singer Beres Hammond. They existed from 1969 to 1979.-History:...
  
  
• Benjamin Zephaniah
  Benjamin Zephaniah
  Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is an English writer and dub poet. He is a well-known figure in contemporary English literature, and was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008....
  
  
• Earl Zero
  Earl Zero
  Earl Anthony Johnson , better known as Earl Zero, is a Jamaican reggae singer whose career began in the 1970s.-History:Born 1953 in the Greenwich Town area of Kingston, Johnson was the eldest of ten children, his father a fisherman and his mother a fishmonger...
  
  
• Tapper Zukie
  Tapper Zukie
  Tapper Zukie is a reggae deejay and producer.-Biography:Tapper was the nickname given to him by his grandmother in his youth, while Zukie was a name that came from his friends' association as a young boy - their gang was called 'The Zukies'.In 1973 his mother, concerned with Zukie's tendency to...
  
  
• Matisyahu
  Matisyahu
  Matthew Paul Miller , better known by his Hebrew name and stage name Matisyahu, is an American Hasidic Jewish reggae and alternative rock musician....
  
  

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