Black Uhuru is a Jamaican reggae group formed in 1972, initially as Uhuru (Swahili for 'freedom'). The group has undergone several line-up changes over the years, with Derrick "Duckie" Simpson as the mainstay. These photographs were taken when Sandra "Puma" Jones was the lead singer. Rehersals at Island Records Fallout Shelter Studios London.

Lee 'Scratch' Perry, born in Kingston in 1939, graduated from being a 'selecter' on the Downbeat sound system and a 'fetcher' for Coxsone Dodd to a far more formidable figure following a notoriously acrimonious split with Dodd. Bob Marley would drop into Perry's shop, Upsetter Records, on Charles Street to check out this extrovert figure who delighted in word-play. Some people have attributed the birth of reggae to Scratch alone after he started dabbling with a music pace that made you feel, he said, as though you were stepping in glue. He had an international hit in 1969 with 'Return Of Django' by The Upsetters, his house band. The Upsetters, formerly known as The Hippy Boys, had been formed by bass player Aston 'Family Man' Barrett: when Family Man linked up with Lee Perry, the producer decided to make the bass the lead instrument of this new form of reggae in which he was now working. - ReggaeXplosion.

Bob marley photographs by Jean Bernard Sohiez

Coxsone Outernational Sound System Sessions by Jean Barnard Sohiez

Keith Blair (born 31 March 1976), better known by the stage name Anthony B, is a Jamaican deejay and member of the Rastafari movement

Augustus Pablo

Laurel Aitken

Junior Delgado, was a reggae singer, famed for his roots style.

James Chambers OM (born 30 July 1944), known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, is a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician.

Clifton George Bailey III better known by his stage name Capleton, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.

Clint Eastwood (born Robert Brammer) is a Jamaican reggae deejay, who recorded as a solo artist in the late 1970s and early 1980s before teaming up with UK deejay General Saint as the duo Clint Eastwood & General Saint.

Culture are a Jamaican roots reggae group founded in 1976.

Philip Thomas, better known as Cutty Ranks, is a Jamaican dancehall singer.

Dennis Brown Photography by Jean Bernard Sohiez

Dennis Bovell MBE is a Barbados-born reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in England. He was a member of the British reggae band Matumbi and released records under his own name as well as the pseudonym Blackbeard.

Dr Alimantado, also known as The Ital Surgeon, is a Jamaican reggae singer, DJ, and producer

Cardiff Butt, better known as General Degree and later as Snapple Dapple, is a Jamaican dancehall deejay and record producer.

Gregory could have been a real contender, the man whose visits to the Cecil Gee store seemingly kept the UK clothing chain in profit had the most heartfelt style you could hope to hear. An enormous talent, he could pen a deliciously sensual song at the drop of one of his broad-brimmed hats; even at the turn of the millennium, a new Gregory Isaacs tune was still a guarantee of some quality. - ReggaeXplosion

Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace is a Jamaican drummer who worked for several years at Studio One

Keith Hudson was a Jamaican reggae artist and record producer. He is known for his influence on the dub movement.

Lieutenant Stitchie, is a Jamaican deejay who originally worked in the dancehall style but switched to gospel reggae in 1997 after surviving a car crash, thereafter working under the shorter name Stitchie.

Mutabaruka by Jean Barnard Sohiez. Allan Hope better known as Mutabaruka, is a Jamaican Rastafari dub poet, musician, actor, educator, and talk-show host.

Raised in the ghetto, Jamaican Nardo Ranks blends his dancehall style with socially conscious lyrics

Desmond John Ballentine, better known as Ninjaman, and sometimes as Don Gorgon is a popular Jamaican dancehall deejay

The Twinkle Brothers were formed in 1962 by brothers Norman (vocals, drums) and Ralston Grant (vocals, rhythm guitar) from Falmouth, Jamaica

Oku Nagba Ozala Onuora, known as the "father of Jamaican dub poetry"

Pablo Moses is a roots reggae vocalist.

Peter Tosh in concert

Beris Simpson, better known as Prince Hammer, is a Jamaican reggae deejay, singer, and record producer.

Prince Lincoln Thompson, known as Sax, was a Jamaican singer, musician and songwriter with the reggae band the Royal Rasses.

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