The revival generation finds its voice

Rory Gilligan, known as Rory Stone Love, is a Jamaican selector born 22 November 1962 in South London to Jamaican parents. He joined the Stone Love Movement as a selector in 1982 while still a student at Calabar High School, one of just three people — alongside Wee Pow and Cancer — who made up Stone Love through the 1980s, and reshaped its dancehall profile through advanced juggling, beat-matching and heavy use of exclusive dubplates. Widely cited as a definitive modern selector, he later built the Black Dub production imprint, working with Bounty Killer, Jigsy King and Capleton, and was credited on DJ Khaled's "You Remind Me" in 2025.

Protoje (Oje Ken Ollivierre, born 14 June 1981) is a Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and label founder from St Elizabeth, and a central architect of the 2010s current commonly called the Reggae Revival. His albums The Seven Year Itch (2011), The 8 Year Affair (2013), Ancient Future (2015), A Matter of Time (2018), In Search of Lost Time (2020) and Third Time's the Charm (2022) join roots reggae to hip-hop, soul and contemporary production; “Who Knows,” featuring Chronixx, became his signature international recording. Through In.Digg.Nation he has developed and released work by artists including Lila Iké, Sevana and Jaz Elise.

Rastafari roots singer and daughter of sound-system man Albert Malawi, whose "Rock It Ina Dance" and "Boom Wah Da Da Deng" made her a prominent woman's voice of the reggae revival.

Reggae-revival singer, songwriter and producer (Micah Bennett), son of deejay Determine, blending roots, dancehall and hip-hop on releases including "Move In" and "Wading.".

Reggae-revival singer (Kelissa McDonald), sister of Keznamdi, whose conscious roots-fusion style is part of the 2010s new-generation wave.

Reggae-revival roots singer whose Rory Stone Love-produced debut "Black Gold" and single "Rasta Nuh Gangsta" marked him as a standout of the 2010s roots generation.

Contemporary singer blending reggae, R&B and dancehall who signed to Protoje's In.Digg.Nation Collective and drew notice with "Fresh & Clean" and the EP "The Golden Hour.".

The 2010s movement of young roots-conscious Jamaican artists — Chronixx, Protoje, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal among them — who returned live bands, Rastafari themes and album-length statements to the centre of the music. The name, coined within the movement itself around 2011, marked a generation claiming the roots tradition on its own terms.

Reggae-revival singer and songwriter who, with his sister Kelissa, came up in the 2010s roots-and-fusion generation.

Jamar "Chronixx" McNaughton, the reggae revival's defining voice: Dread and Terrible (2014) announced the movement's arrival, Chronology (2017) earned a Grammy nomination, and his Zincfence Redemption band restored the touring live band to the centre of young Jamaican music.

Reggae-revival roots singer whose "Diamond Sox" became a modern roots anthem of the mid-2010s.

In.Digg.Nation Collective is a label and collective associated with artist Protoje, part of the 2010s "Reggae Revival" movement of younger Jamaican artists releasing roots-influenced music through independent, internationally-distributed channels rather than the older major-label/riddim-producer system.

As fusion, revival and trap reshaped the sound, the authenticity question came home.

The selector went from an anonymous pair of hands on the turntable to the named star of the dance.

How Jamaica's one-producer labels, London's licensing houses and a family firm in Queens joined into a single map of the music business.

A new cohort of Jamaican deejays broke through on YouTube views and streaming charts rather than radio play, without breaking from dancehall's toasting lineage.