Jamaica's own lovers rock

Jamaican singer and prolific session harmony vocalist known for the lovers ballad "Dear Boopsie" and for backing vocals across countless reggae sessions.

Dancehall-era balladeer (Kevin Anthony Jackson) dubbed the "golden voice of reggae," whose smooth covers and originals - including the Penthouse hit "One in a Million" produced by Donovan Germain - defined the singing side of late-1980s and 1990s dancehall.

Jamaican dancehall-era singer best known for her 1992 duet with Shabba Ranks, a remake of "Mr Loverman," produced by Clifton "Specialist" Dillon's Twin City Productions in partnership with the vocal group Home T.

Vocal quartet fronted by Michael Bennet(t), born 1962, whose 1980 hit "Irons In the Fire" led to a run of harmony singles and a role backing and arranging J.C. Lodge's "Telephone Love" (1988); in 1990 the group joined Shabba Ranks and Cocoa Tea on Gussie Clarke's "Pirates Anthem" before Bennett's later solo/production career as Home T.

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.

British-born Jamaican singer and actress (June Carol Lodge) whose 'Telephone Love' became a signature dancehall-lovers hit and who, with 'Someone Loves You Honey', became one of the first Jamaican women signed to a major US label; a pioneering lovers rock singer.

Donovan Germain is a Jamaican record producer who founded Penthouse Records and, after returning to Kingston in 1987, opened Penthouse Studio, one of the island's leading studios in the digital dancehall era. He guided the early career of Buju Banton, who joined the label in 1991 and recorded hits such as "Murderer," and worked alongside in-house engineer/producer Dave Kelly, developing artists including Wayne Wonder, Marcia Griffiths and Tony Rebel. Germain became one of the most successful reggae producers of the 1990s and served as Buju Banton's manager for many years.

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.

A Jamaican record label associated with the dancehall era. Starter record pending editorial verification.

Many of reggae's most durable solo careers started in someone else's harmony stack.

Record labels are not just logos: they are studios, producers, shops, distributors, reissue narratives and artist pathways.

A single 1988 rhythm carried Jamaican dancehall into American R&B radio.

The version side, selector pull-up, slackness/culture debate and named dances show dancehall as a performance system.