Marjorie Whylie – Director of Music Department – University of West Indies
The Most Honorable Edward Seaga – Prime Minister of Jamaica 1980-1989
Robin Plunkett – The Happy Smilers
Theodore Miller – Lititz Mento Band
Wesley Balds – Gilzene and the Blue Light Mento Band
Ransford James – Kew Park Mento Band
Manley Spence – Kew Park Mento Band
Joseph “Calypso Joe” Beckford – The Triangles
Derrick “Jonny” Henry – The Jolly Boys
Ernest Ranglin – Guitarist, Composer, Arranger
Colby Graham – Publisher – Vintage Boss
Lord Power and his Calypsonians
Daniel Neely – Ethnomusicologist
Garth White – Musicologist
Sonny Bradshaw – President – Jamaican Federation of Musicians
Cecil “Motherless” Mitchell
Sugar Belly Walker
Sonny Boriel – Lititz Mento Band
Count Lasher
Allan Swymmer – The Jolly Boys
Lord Tanamo
Ivan Chin
Alexander Bedward
Harry Belafonte
Slim and Sam
Everard Williams
Alerth Bedasse
Monty Alexander
Lord Flea
Pork Chops
Coxsone Dodd
The Rt. Hon. Dr. Louise Bennett-Coverly
Sydney Watson – Mt. Peace Mento Band
Nelson Chambers – Blue Glaze Mento Band
Carlton “Blackie” James – Rod Dennis Mento Band
Stranger Cole
Bunny Wailer
Toots Hibbert
Samuel Scott – Cousin of Peter Tosh, Saxaphonist – Kew Park Mento Band
The Jolly Boys
Errol and Patrice Wymore Flynn
Gilzene and the Blue Light Mento Band
Elephant Man
The Overtakers
Noel Lynch and Joseph “Powda” Bennett – The Jolly Boys
Cecil Chambers – B.B. King and the Westerners
Albert Morgan – The Happy Smilers
