Boasting eight top 10 projects on the Reggae Albums chart and three Billboard Hot 100 hits - "Wonderful World" (No. 25), "Clearly" (No. 18) and 1970's "Come Into My Life" (No. 89) - Jimmy Cliff has ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The story of Jimmy Cliff, who has died at age 81, is in part the story of reggae itself. Like so many Jamaican teens of his time, he moved to Kingston in the early 1960s and joined a ...
Cliff is being given a state memorial as a Jamaican hero. His eldest daughter, Odessa Chambers, remembers him as an even more ...
KINGSTON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican singer who along with Bob Marley popularized reggae, ska and rocksteady music over a six decade career, has died, his wife Latifa ...
Reggae star Jimmy Cliff, known for his like You Can Get It If You Really Want, has passed away at the age of 81, his family has announced.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Cliff, the charismatic reggae pioneer and actor who preached joy, defiance and resilience in such classics as “Many Rivers to Cross,” “You Can Get it If You Really Want” and ...
Jimmy spent some of his childhood with his aunt when his parents couldn’t afford to feed him. His angelic voice lit up church every Sunday. A fortuitous move to Kingston set him on a course for fame.
The Grammy-winning artist, whose music traversed reggae, ska, rocksteady, soul and rock ‘n’ roll, passed on Monday (Nov. 24), as announced by his wife, Latifah Chambers, in an Instagram post. “It’s ...