List of Jamaican backing bands
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A

  • Aggrovators (The)
    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...

  • Afro Jamaican Rhythms (The)
  • Alley Cats (The)
  • Alpha Boy School Band (The)
  • Amalgamated Allstars (The)
    Joe Gibbs
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  • Anderson Allstars (The)
  • Aquarius Allstars (The)
  • Arabs (The)
    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...


B

  • Baba Brooks Band (The)
  • Beverley's Allstars (The)
  • 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...

  • Black Disciples (The)
  • Black Roots Players (The)
  • Blue Flames (The)
  • Brentford Road Allstars (The)

C

  • Caribbeats (The)
  • Cavaliers (The)
  • Charmers (The)
  • City Slickers (The)
  • Clue J & His Blues Blasters
    Clue J & His Blues Blasters
    Clue J & His Blues Blasters were a Jamaican band of the late 1950s and early 1960s led by Cluett Johnson, who were one of the first bands to play ska...

  • Comets (The)
  • Conscious Minds (The)
  • Crystalites (The)
    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,...


D

  • Daley Allstars (The)
    Lloyd Daley
    Lloyd Daley also known as Matador is a Jamaican electronic technician, sound system pioneer and reggae producer.-Career:...

  • Destroyers (The)
  • Divine Light Of Saba (The)
  • Dynamites (The)
    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...

  • Dragonaires (The)
  • Dread Naught (The)
  • Drew Droppers (The)
  • Drumbago's Orchestra (The)
  • Dub Specialists (The)
  • Duke Reid Group (The)
    Duke Reid
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F

  • Fasimbas (The)
  • Fat Man Riddim Section (The)
  • Fire House Crew (The)
  • Force of Music (The)
  • Fugitives (The)

G

  • GG Allstars (The)
    Alvin Ranglin
    Alvin 'GG' Ranglin is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer.-Biography:Ranglin started to sing in public in his teens with an Adventist Church background. As a radio and television technician involved in the jukebox industry, he soon acquired his own sound system he named "GG"...

  • Gladdy's All-Stars
  • Godsons (The)
  • Granville Williams Orchestra (The)
  • Groovy Beats (The)

H

  • Happening (The)
  • Harry J Allstars (The)
  • Herman Allstars (The)
  • Hi Life Players (The)
  • Hippy Boys (The)
    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....

  • High Times Band (The)
  • Hotshots (The)

I

  • Impact Allstars (The)
  • In Crowd (The)
  • Inner Circle
  • Inner Minds

J

  • Jamaican Shadows (The)
  • Jets (The)
    Lynn Taitt
    Lynn Taitt was a reggae guitarist born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, closely associated with Jamaican rocksteady music.-Biography:...

  • Joe Gibbs Allstars (The)
    Joe Gibbs (record producer)
    Joe Gibbs born Joel A. Gibson was a Jamaican reggae producer.-Biography:Joe Gibbs worked as an electronics engineer in the United States before his career in music started. Gibbs eventually returned to Kingston, Jamaica and opened an electrical repair shop with television repairs and sales as its...

  • JJ Allstars (The)
  • Jamvybz All Star Band

M

  • Maroons (The)
  • Matador Allstars (The)
    Lloyd Daley
    Lloyd Daley also known as Matador is a Jamaican electronic technician, sound system pioneer and reggae producer.-Career:...

  • Matadors (The)
  • Mighty Vikings (The)
  • Misty In Roots
  • Mudies Allstars (The)
    Harry Mudie
    Harry A. Mudie is a Jamaican record producer.-Biography:Harry Mudie attended the St Jago High School. In the mid fifties, he launched his own sound system "Mudies Hi-Fi", before going to the UK to study electronics and photography.Back in Jamaica in the late 1950s, Mudie began producing, mainly...

  • Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari (The)
    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...

  • Mystics (The)

P

  • Phil Pratt Allstars (The)
    Phil Pratt
    Phil Pratt, born George Phillips is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer.Phil Pratt worked at Studio One for Coxsone Dodd as a box-loader during the rocksteady period when Lee Perry was operating there, before moving to the United Kingdom in the early 1960s...

  • Professionals (The)
    Joe Gibbs
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  • Prophets (The)
  • Prince Buster Allstars (The)
    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...


R

  • Randy's Allstars (The)
    Clive Chin
    Clive Chin is a Chinese Jamaican record producer whose work includes recordings by The Wailers, Dennis Brown, Lee Perry and Black Uhuru, among others...

  • Ravers (The)
  • Reggae Massive
  • Revolutionaries (The)
    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 Rulers (The)
    Harry Mudie
    Harry A. Mudie is a Jamaican record producer.-Biography:Harry Mudie attended the St Jago High School. In the mid fifties, he launched his own sound system "Mudies Hi-Fi", before going to the UK to study electronics and photography.Back in Jamaica in the late 1950s, Mudie began producing, mainly...

  • Riley's Allstars (The)
  • Ring Craft Posse (The)
  • Roots Radics (The)
    Roots Radics
    The Roots Radics Band was formed in 1978 by bass player Errol "Flabba" Holt and guitarist Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont. They were joined by many great musicians. As a combined force the Roots Radics became a well-respected studio and stage band, which dominated the sound in the first half of the 1980s...

  • Rupies Allstars (The)
    Rupie Edwards
    Rupie Edwards is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer.-Biography:...

  • Rupie Edwards Allstars (The)
    Rupie Edwards
    Rupie Edwards is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer.-Biography:...


S

  • Sambo Jim
  • Setters (The)
  • Shaka Allstars (The)
  • Sharks (The)
  • Sheiks (The)
  • Singers & Players
  • Sir JJ Allstars (The)
  • Skatalites (The)
    The Skatalites
    The Skatalites are a ska band from Jamaica. They played initially between 1963 and 1965, and recorded many of their best known songs in the period, including "Guns of Navarone". They also played on records by Prince Buster and backed many other Jamaican artists who recorded during that period...

  • Skin, Flesh & Bones
  • Sons Of Negus (The)
    Ras Michael
    Ras Michael is a Jamaican reggae singer and Nyabinghi specialist. He also performs under the name of Dadawah.-Biography:...

  • Soul Brothers (The)
  • Soul Defenders
  • Soul Messengers (The)
  • Soul Rhythm (The)
  • 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:...

     (The)
  • Soulettes (The)
    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:...

  • Soulmates (The)
  • Soul Vendors (The)
  • Sound Dimension (The)
  • Steely & Clevie
  • Studio One Orchestra (The)
  • Supersonics (The)
    Duke Reid
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T

  • Taxi Gang
  • Techniques Allstars (The)
  • Thoroughbreds (The)
  • Tradition
  • Ty & The Titans

W

  • Wackies Rhythm Force (The)
    Wackies
    Wackies is an American independent record label specialized in reggae and dub music.Founded in the 1970s by Lloyd Barnes, as the Wackie's House Of Music based on White Plains Road in New York, the name Wackies also include a record shop and a studio...

  • Wailers (The)
    Wailers Band
    The Wailers Band are a reggae band formed by the remaining members of Bob Marley & The Wailers‎, following the death of Bob Marley in 1981.-Previous Wailers' incarnations:The Wailers‎ started as Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh...

  • Warrickas (The)
  • We The People Band
  • Well Pack Band (The)
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