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• Ace, Richard "Jah"
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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"....
  
  
• Aswad
• Antidoping
  Antidoping
  Antidoping is a Mexican reggae band formed in the summer of 1992 in Mexico City. They fuse roots reggae, ska and Caribbean rhythms with an urban flavour....
  
  
• Anthony B
  Anthony B
  Anthony B is the stage name of Keith Blair , a Jamaican musician and member of the Rastafari movement....
  
  

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• 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.”...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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 Youth
  Big Youth
  Manley Augustus Buchanan , better known as Big Youth , is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Khady Black
  Khady Black
  Khadyja Fofana better known by her stage name Khady Black is a Sierra Leonean rastafarian and Roots reggae musician. She is Sierra Leone's first international female reggae artist...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• George Boswell
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  

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• 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...
  
  
• Pete Campbell
  Pete Campbell
  Peter "Pete" Campbell is a fictional character on AMC's television series Mad Men. He is portrayed by Vincent Kartheiser.-Biography:...
  
  
• Martin Campbell
• 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...
  
  
• Cali P
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Lacksley Castell
  Lacksley Castell
  Lacksley Castell was a Jamaican reggae singer best known for his work in the early 1980s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chezidek
  Chezidek
  Chezidek is a roots reggae singer. He is known for his hit singles, "Call Pon Dem" , "Can't Hear Must Feel", "Inna Di Road", and "Leave De Trees".-Biography:...
  
  
• The Chinese Connection Dub Embassy
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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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• 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:...
  
  
• Koko Dembélé
• Dezarie
  Dezarie
  Dezarie is a female roots reggae singer born in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.She received Atlanta's "Best New Female Reggae Artist" award in 2001 before returning to St. Croix.She works closely with Midnite. She currently has four albums available...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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"...
  
  
• Dispatch
  Dispatch
  Dispatch or dispatches may refer to:In literature* Dispatches , a 1977 book by Michael Herr about the Vietnam War* dispatches , a magazine edited by Gary Knight and Mort RosenblumIn radio and television...
  
  
• Ossie Dellimore

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• Familia
• The Firm Foundation Riddim Squad
• Clinton Fearon
  Clinton Fearon
  Clinton Fearon is a Jamaican reggae singer and musician born on February 13, 1951 in Saint Andrews, Jamaica. He has lived Seattle, Washington since 1987.-Jamaica:...
  
  
• From Good Homes

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• G - Man
• Gentleman
  Gentleman (musician)
  Tilmann Otto , better known by his stage name Gentleman, is a German Reggae musician.- Personal life :...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Glen Washington
• Gondwana
  Gondwana (musical group)
  Gondwana is a reggae group from La Pincoya, Santiago, Chile, founded in 1987 by I Locks Labbé. They have been produced by Dr. Dread of RAS Records...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Gully Ranks
• Gyptian
  Gyptian
  Gyptian Born on 25 October 1983, Jamaican reggae singer. He often appears with roots reggae songs within the reggae subgenre dancehall....
  
  

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• Half Pint
• Beres Hammond
  Beres Hammond
  Beres Hammond is a reggae singer known in particular for his romantic lovers rock and soulful voice...
  
  
• Hornsman Coyote
  Hornsman Coyote
  Nemanja Kojić , better known by his stage name Hornsman Coyote , is a Reggae/Dub musician of Serbian descent.- Personal life :Coyote resides in Belgrade...
  
   singer of Eyesburn
  Eyesburn
  Eyesburn is a Serbian hardcore punk/crossover thrash band with influences of reggae music.- 1990s :The band was formed in 1994, and the original line-up featured former Dead Ideas guitarist Nemanja "Kojot" Kojić , who simultaneously worked as trombonist in Del Arno Band and bass guitarist in...
  
   (Nemanja Kojic)
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Humble soul
• 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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• 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-Wayne
• Ila
  Ila
  ILA or Ila may refer to:* MV Ila, ship in service 1947-52Places:* Ila, Georgia, community in United States* Ila, Trondheim, borough in Norway* Ila, Nigeria, townPersonal names:...
  
  
• Inna Vision
• Inner Visions
• 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...
  
  
• Itopia

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• Junior Lou
• Jah Blakks
• Jah Mali
• 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:...
  
  
• Jampara
• John Brown's Body
  John Brown's Body
  "John Brown's Body" is an American marching song about the abolitionist John Brown. The song was popular in the Union during the American Civil War. The tune arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American camp meeting movement of the 19th century...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Roydel Johnson
  Roydel Johnson
  Roydel Anthony Johnson , better known as Congo Ashanti Roy is a Jamaican reggae singer best known as a member of The Congos but who also recorded solo and as a member of Ras Michael's Sons of Negus.-Biography:...
  
  
• Junior Delahaye
• Jah Batta

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• Kameleba
• Kameleba
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Kiddus I
  Kiddus I
  Kiddus I is a reggae singer and musician, best known for his appearance in the film Rockers.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Krush Krz

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• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Los Pericos
  Los Pericos
  Los Pericos is an Argentine band formed in 1987. The band has enjoyed international success, especially throughout South America. In 2006, the band received some notable exposure for North American audiences when featured on an episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations...
  
  
• Los Cafres
• Lovejoys
• Luciano
  Luciano (singer)
  Luciano is a Jamaican second generation roots reggae artist and poet....
  
  
• Lady Saw
  Lady Saw
  Lady Saw is a Jamaican reggae singer, known as the queen of dancehall.-Biography:...
  
  

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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...
  
  
• Bob Marley & the Wailers
  Bob Marley & The Wailers
  Bob Marley & The Wailers were a Jamaican reggae, ska and rocksteady band formed by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963. Additional members were Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Cherry Smith and Aston and Carlton Barrett...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Matisyahu
• The Maytones
  The Maytones
  The Maytones are a Jamaican reggae vocal duo who were active between the late 1960s and until 1980.-History:...
  
  
• Winston McAnuff
  Winston McAnuff
  Winston McAnuff, also known under the stage name Electric Dread, is a Jamaican singer and composer of reggae- and dub music.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• Sugar Minott
  Sugar Minott
  Lincoln Barrington "Sugar" Minott was a Jamaican reggae singer, producer and sound-system operator.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• Naggo Morris
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Chris Murray
• 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...
  
  
• 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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• Nasio
• Natiruts
• Negusa Negast
• 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...
  
  
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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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Lee Scratch Perry
• Prince Alla
  Prince Alla
  Prince Alla aka Prince Allah or Ras Allah is a roots reggae singer whose career began in the 1960s, and has continued with a string of releases into the 2000s.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Providencia
  Providencia
  Providencia may refer to:* Providencia, Chile* Providencia District in Amazonas, Peru* Providencia Island, part of the San Andrés y Providencia Department district of Colombia in the Caribbean sea...
  
  
• Pressure
  Pressure
  Pressure is the force per unit area applied in a direction perpendicular to the surface of an object. Gauge pressure is the pressure relative to the local atmospheric or ambient pressure.- Definition :...
  
  
• Promoe
  Promoe
  Promoe is a Swedish rapper, and member of Swedish hip hop group Looptroop Rockers, formed in Västerås, Sweden, 1992. He released his fourth album in 2009 entitled Kråksången, and later the same year followed up with the mixtape Bondfångeri...
  
  

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• Queen Omega
• Queen D
• Queen Ifrica
  Queen Ifrica
  Queen Ifrica is a reggae singer and deejay from the hills above Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the daughter of ska music legend Derrick Morgan but was raised by her mother and stepfather. Her career began in her home town in 1995 when she won a talent competition in a local club...
  
  

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• Ramona Ramaro
• Roots Radics
  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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Resistencia Suburbana
• Rhythm & Sound
• Richard "Jah" Ace
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Rootsamala
• Michael Rose
• 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:...
  
  
• 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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• Sanchez
• Scientist
  Scientist
  A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Sly & Robbie
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• State Radio
  State Radio
  State Radio is an alternative rock band from Sherborn, Massachusetts, consisting of Chad Urmston , Chuck Fay and Mike Najarian...
  
  
• Sebastian Sturm
• Soldiers of Jah Army
  Soldiers of Jah Army
  Soldiers of Jah Army is a band based in Arlington, Virginia in the Northern Virginia / Washington D.C. area. Starting as an active band in 1997, their music is produced under the record label Innerloop.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sons of Zion (Trinidad & Tobago)
• Peter Spence
  Peter Spence
  Peter Spence is an English journalist and writer. He is perhaps best known for creating and writing the British sitcom To the Manor Born.-Early life:...
  
  
• Tanya Stevens
• 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....
  
  

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• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  

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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...
  
  
• Wailing Souls
• Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace
• 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...
  
  
• Wayne Wonder
  Wayne Wonder
  Wayne Wonder is a Jamaican reggae fusion artist...