Jamaican Media

Media originating in Jamaica.

Artists

• Christine Adams (English actress and model whose parents are Jamaican immigrants)
• Oliver Samuels

Film

• The Harder They Come

Literature

• Ian Fleming wrote several James Bond novels when residing in Jamaica, the sixth of which, Dr. No, is set there.
• Anthony Winkler
• The Painted Canoe (1984)
• The Lunatic (1987), which spawned a film in 1991 starring Paul Campbell and Carl Bradshaw

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• The Great Yacht Race (1992)
• The Burglary, a play produced in Jamaica in 1993 and in Toronto in 2005
• Going Home to Teach (1995)
• The Duppy (1997)
• The Annihilation of Fish (1999), a screenplay filmed in Los Angeles and starring James Earl Jones and Margot Kidder
• The Annihilation of Fish and Other Stories (2004), a short story collection
• Dog War (2006)
• Crocodile (2009)

Music

• Harry Belafonte
• Jimmy Cliff
• Desmond Dekker
• Grace Jones
• Judge Dread
• Bob Marley
  • Catch a Fire (1972)
  • Burnin' (1973)
  • Natty Dread (1974)
  • Live (1975)
  • Rastaman Vibration (1976)
  • Exodus (1977)
  • Kaya (1978)
  • Uprising (1980)
  • Confrontation (1983)
  • Legend (1984)
• Lee "Scratch" Perry
• Max Romeo
  • War Ina Babylon (1976)
• Peter Tosh
  • Legalize It (1976)
• Twin Of Twins

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