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Admiral Tibet was a Jamaican singer associated with "cultural" (Rastafari-influenced, socially conscious) dancehall through the late 1980s and 1990s, part of a lineage of artists balancing dancehall's rhythms with roots-style lyrical content.

Singer who began as a youth at Studio One and became a busy roots and UK lovers-rock voice through the late 1970s and 1980s.

Reggae-pop singer-songwriter (Alaine Laughton) whose 2005 breakthrough "No Ordinary Love" rode Don Corleon's Seasons Riddim; she has since worked with Sly & Robbie and top Jamaican producers.

Italian reggae singer and producer born Alberto D'Ascola in Marsala, Sicily in 1977, who fronted the pioneering Italian reggae band Reggae National Tickets from 1992 before relocating to Kingston in the early 2000s; his 2008 solo debut Soul Pirate launched a career built on writing, playing and producing nearly all of his own material as a self-styled "Italian Reggae Ambassador".

Mento vocalist who was lead singer of Chin's Calypso Sextet out of Chin's Radio Service on Church Street, Kingston; his "Night Food" (written by Everald Williams) was among the fastest-selling Jamaican records of the early 1950s.

Ivorian reggae singer (Seydou Koné, born 1953) who sings in Dioula, French, English and Hebrew and became one of Africa's most successful reggae artists from the 1980s with albums such as 'Jah Glory' and 'Cocody Rock', recording with Bob Marley's backing band the Wailers; his songs address African politics and Pan-African unity (Wikipedia 'Alpha Blondy'; RFI Music).

Alton Ellis was a Jamaican singer closely associated with the birth of rocksteady - his own song "Rocksteady" (1966) is one source of the genre's name - recording for both Coxsone Dodd's Studio One and Duke Reid's Treasure Isle. His ballad "I'm Still in Love," released in 1967, became one of the most repeatedly re-voiced and sampled rhythms in Jamaican music, covered and versioned across reggae and dancehall for decades after.

Dancehall singer born 1962 in Kingston who rose through the Black Star sound system before recording for King Jammy's; he had early hits with Tiger and reached his commercial peak in 1994 alongside Anthony Red Rose on their How Yu Fi Sey Dat label, also combining with Josey Wales and later appearing on the multi-artist "Ballistic Affair" riddim.

Anthony Red Rose is a Jamaican dancehall singer-deejay whose 1985 tune 'Tempo', recorded in one take after King Tubby overheard him rehearsing it and produced by King Jammy, gave its name to the widely versioned Tempo riddim and became a foundation record of the Waterhouse digital-dancehall style. He later co-founded the production label How Yu Fi Say Dat with fellow deejay Anthony Malvo.

Kingston-born singer (b. c.1948) who first recorded as half of the duo Dandy & Audrey with Dandy Livingstone in 1969, spent much of the 1970s and early '80s as a backing vocalist alongside her sister Pam Hall, and returned as a solo hitmaker in 1986 with "Smile" and "One Dance Won't Do," both produced by Donovan Germain for Penthouse.

Barrington Levy (born 1964, Clarendon) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer who rose to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s with a soaring, distinctive vocal style. Working with producer Henry "Junjo" Lawes and the Roots Radics band at King Tubby's studio, he cut a run of foundational early-dancehall hits including "Collie Weed," "Skylarking" and "Here I Come." He is widely regarded as one of the originators of the dancehall style and sustained his popularity into the 1990s.

Crooner and Dynamic Sounds engineer, lead singer for Byron Lee's Dragonaires, whose 1976 reggae cover "Sideshow" reached number three on the UK chart.

Kingston-born roots and early-dancehall singer (1957-2004) nicknamed the "Jamaican Bob Dylan" for his socially observant lyrics, who broke through with 1979's "Step It Up Youthman" and went on to record extensively for Bunny Lee, Studio One, Linval Thompson, Niney the Observer, Prince Jammy and Henry "Junjo" Lawes.

Singer and songwriter (Harris "BB" Seaton) who led the rocksteady harmony trio The Gaylads and recorded extensively at Studio One before a solo and songwriting career.

Beres Hammond (born Hugh Beresford Hammond, 1955, Annotto Bay) is a Jamaican singer and songwriter celebrated as one of reggae's foremost lovers-rock and soul-influenced vocalists. After early work fronting the band Zap Pow, he achieved major success with Penthouse Records and producer Donovan Germain on the 1990 hit "Tempted to Touch," and later ran his own Harmony House label in partnership with VP Records. He was awarded the Order of Jamaica in 2013 for his contribution to Jamaican music.