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Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff has died - Jamaica Observer

International reggae icon Jimmy Cliff has died, his family announced Monday. In a post to his official social media pages, his wife Latifa Chambers said Cliff passed away after a battle with pneumonia which followed a seizure. He was 81. “I am thankful for his family, friends, fellow artists and...
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The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
Some absolute classics there pal. RIP Jimmy Cliff. What a brilliant musician.
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have heard a couple of people on the radio today who met him in venues where he was gigging. Both times they excitedly told their mates he was on and they said " Jimmy who?" - then he gets on stage and bang, bang, bang hit after hit and the response was "Oh thats Jimmy Cliff !!"
 
fanatic1 said:
Jimmy Cliff also starred, as well as sang, in the film "The harder they come" in 1972. This was the very 1st film to be wholly made by Jamaica and he did a very good acting job as a singer caught up in the narcotics trade. It was also a wider international hit.
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See also “Cool Runnings.”
 
fanatic1 said:
Jimmy Cliff also starred, as well as sang, in the film "The harder they come" in 1972. This was the very 1st film to be wholly made by Jamaica and he did a very good acting job as a singer caught up in the narcotics trade. It was also a wider international hit.
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The soundtrack to that movie is one if my all time favourite albums definitely has to be up there as one of the best movie soundtracks
 
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