Singers

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.

Bermuda-born and Jamaica-based, Aisha Davis is a singer, songwriter and trained contemporary dancer who also works as an actress, voice-over artist, voice tutor and MC. Her own music is a fusion of reggae and dancehall with soul and alternative pop, and her singles include "We Got Love" (and its remix with Mr Lexx), "Funny Feeling" with Double X of TOK, and the 2003 duet with Anthony B, "Someone Loves You Honey", which remains her best-known record. Alongside her solo work she has been a heavily worked touring vocalist — lead and backing — for Shaggy, Shabba Ranks, Ky-Mani Marley, Cocoa Tea and Alborosie, and has appeared with Maxi Priest and Tanya Stephens. She has toured Europe, India, Africa, the US and the Caribbean, and played Jamaica's major shows including Reggae Sumfest, the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival and Carifesta, plus Rototom in Italy and Reggae Jam and Summer Jam in Germany. Dates and a full discography still need building out from a catalogue source. Not to be confused with Aisha (Pamela Ross), the UK roots singer also in the archive.

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.

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.