This is a list of notable bands and musicians who performed primarily ska or ska-influenced music for a significant portion of their careers.
Original (starting in late 1950s)
Aubrey Adams Laurel Aitken Roland Alphonso Theophilus Beckford Val Bennett Ken Boothe Baba Brooks The Blues Busters Prince Buster The Clarendonians Jimmy Cliff Clue J & His Blues Blasters Stranger Cole Desmond Dekker Coxsone Dodd Don Drummond Jackie Edwards Alton Ellis The Ethiopians Owen Gray Derrick Harriott Justin Hinds Jah Jerry Haynes Lloyd Knibb Byron Lee & the Dragonaires Count Machuki Carlos Malcolm Tommy McCook The Melodians Johnny "Dizzy" Moore Derrick Morgan Eric "Monty" Morris Jackie Opel The Paragons Lee "Scratch" Perry Lord Tanamo The Pioneers Ernest Ranglin Rico Rodriguez The Skatalites The Silvertones Millie Small Symarip Lynn Taitt Toots & the Maytals The Wailers Delroy Wilson
2 Tone ska revival (starting in late 1970s)
Akrylykz The Apollinaires Pauline Black Bad Manners Mike Barson The Beat/The English Beat Mark Bedford Buster Bloodvessel The Bodysnatchers John Bradbury Andy Cox Rhoda Dakar Jerry Dammers Judge Dread Chris Foreman Lynval Golding Terry Hall Madness Everett Morton Horace Panter Roddy Radiation Ranking Roger The Selecter Chas Smash The Specials Neville Staple Suggs Lee Thompson Dave Wakeling Daniel Woodgate
Third wave ska (starting in early 1980s)
Against All Authority Allniters Animal Chin The Aquabats Area-7 The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Athena BeNuts Blue Meanies Big D and the Kids Table Bim Skala Bim The Bruce Lee Band Buck-O-Nine Catch 22 Cherry Poppin' Daddies The Chinkees Choking Victim Chris Murray Citizen Fish Common Rider The Crazy 8s Dance Hall Crashers Deal's Gone Bad Desorden Publico Distemper Doe Maar Downfall Edna's Goldfish The Expendables Falling Sickness Farse Fishbone Five Iron Frenzy Fuzigish The Gadjits Gals Panic Go Jimmy Go GOGO13 Goldfinger Hepcat The Hippos The Hooters The Hotknives The Impossibles Inspecter 7 The Insyderz Jeffries Fan Club Johnny Socko Kemuri King Apparatus The Kingpins The Know How Lightyear Leftöver Crack Less Than Jake Let's Go Bowling Link 80 Long Shot Party Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Mad Caddies Mark Foggo's Skasters Mealticket Me Mom and Morgentaler Mephiskapheles The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Monkey Mr. Review Mu330 Mustard Plug No Doubt The O.C. Supertones Operation Ivy Panteón Rococó The Pietasters Pilfers The Planet Smashers The Porkers Potshot Pressure Cooker Rancid Reel Big Fish The Rough Kutz Ruder Than You The Rudiments Rx Bandits Save Ferris The Scofflaws The Siren Six! Ska-P Skankin' Pickle Skavoovie and the Epitones Skinnerbox The Skoidats The Skunks The Slackers Slapstick Slow Gherkin Spunge Spring Heeled Jack Stubborn All-Stars Subb Sublime Suburban Legends Suburban Rhythm The Suicide Machines Superhiks The Toasters Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra The Uptones The Untouchables Tijuana No! Voodoo Glow Skulls
Post-third wave (starting in early 2000s)
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution Beebs and Her Money Makers Bomb The Music Industry! The Brass Action Capdown Catbite The Cat Empire Chase Long Beach En Tol Sarmiento The Flatliners Folly The Forces of Evil Gollbetty Howards Alias Hub City Stompers Imperial Leisure The Interrupters I Voted for Kodos Jeff Rosenstock The Johnstones The King Blues King Prawn Kingston Rudieska Lightyear Locomondo The Locos Murphy's Kids No Torso Oreskaband The Orobians Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra Random Hand RedSka Rude King Russkaja The Rudimentals Ska Cubano The Skints Slightly Stoopid Sonic Boom Six Sounds Like Chicken Starpool Streetlight Manifesto The Supervillains Talco The Unlimiters The Upgrades Westbound Train We Are the Union
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