Nadine Sutherland is a Jamaican singer from Kingston, Jamaica, with a career in reggae and R&B. Raised in Above Rocks in Saint Catherine Parish, she begins performing in 1979 and wins the Tastee Talent Contest that year, defeating Paul Blake and Yellowman. While still at St Andrew High School, she is managed by her parents and also studies business administration.

She becomes the first artist signed by Bob Marley to the Tuff Gong label, recording “Starvation on the Land” when she is eleven. After Marley’s death, she performs at memorial concerts outside Jamaica alongside Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, the I Threes and the Wailers. She later struggles to establish herself as a solo act, tours the United States supporting Bunny Wailer, and works as a backing vocalist at Gussie Clarke’s Music Works studio. She then works for Donovan Germain at Penthouse Studios.

Germain produces her 1993 hit “Action”, a collaboration with Terror Fabulous. The song is used by the Jamaican Labour Party as an election campaign theme and is listed by Vibe in 2007 among the fifty greatest duets of all time. In the United States, it reaches number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100. Buju Banton’s “Dickie” is remixed as “Wicked Dickie” with Sutherland adding vocals, and the track tops the charts in Jamaica. She later collaborates with Banton again on “What Am I Gonna Do”.

In 2006, Sutherland appears at Reggae Sunsplash. The following year she releases Call My Name, which performs well in Jamaica and on reggae charts in Florida and New York. At the Canadian Reggae Music Awards in 2008, the album is nominated for Top Reggae CD/Album (International), and its single “Big Tingz” is nominated for Best Reggae Single (International).

Outside recording, Sutherland appears as a judge on Digicel Rising Stars, writes for the Jamaica Observer, and serves on the committee for the charity Sisters to Sisters.