Artists like Janet Kay

Louisa Lynthia Mark, also known as "Markswoman", was a British lovers rock singer, best known for her work between the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Her 1975 single "Caught You in a Lie" is regarded as the first lovers rock single.

Lindon Andrew Roberts, professionally known as Half Pint, is a Jamaican dancehall, ragga, and reggae singer.

Kevin Anthony Jackson, also known by his stage name Sanchez, is a Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter and record producer.

Garnet Silk was a Jamaican reggae musician and Rastafarian, known for his diverse, emotive, powerful and smooth voice. During the early 1990s he was hailed as a rising talent, however his career was ended by his early death in 1994, while attempting to save his mother from her burning house.

Matumbi were one of the top British reggae bands of the 1970s and early 1980s, and are best known as the first successful band of guitarist and record producer Dennis Bovell. The group wrote and performed the opening theme song to Empire Road, a British television series made by the BBC in 1978 and running until 1979. The popularity of the song led to it being released as a single in 1978.