Today we pause not simply because a great artiste has passed, but because a great soul has completed his earthly journey. We pause to honour a man whose voice, music, and spirit carried this nation ...
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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 ...
A maxim as profound as the Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” but far more hopeful, the jaunty 1970 single “You Can Get It If You Really Want” perfectly set up Jimmy Cliff’s career: Here is ...
The story of Jimmy Cliff, who has died at age 81, is in part the story of reggae itself NEW YORK -- The story of Jimmy Cliff, who has died at age 81, is in part the story of reggae itself. Like so ...
A giant of Jamaican music, he gained international renown through the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” and helped establish reggae’s themes of struggle, resistance and uplift. By Ben Sisario Much ...