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 Rolando McNaughton, born in Spanish Town on 10 October 1992, is the son of the singer Selvin McNaughton, who worked as Chronicle — the boy was called Little Chronicle before he was Chronixx. He wrote his first song at five and was building riddims for other people by fourteen, which is the part of the story usually left out: he came up as a producer, not as a voice looking for one. His brother's death in 2009 turned him toward Romaine "Teflon" Arnett and Zincfence, and the Zincfence Redemption band that followed put a touring live band back at the centre of young Jamaican music at a moment when the dance had belonged to riddims and a laptop for twenty years. Dread & Terrible (2014) announced the reggae revival; Chronology (2017) was nominated for Best Reggae Album at the 60th Grammys. Exile followed in 2025.

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.