Jimmy Cliff, a Grammy award-winning Jamaican reggae star and actor, is lifeless at 81, in keeping with his household.
“It’s with profound unhappiness that I share that my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over as a result of a seizure adopted by pneumonia,” Latifa Chambers, Cliff’s spouse, stated in a submit on his official Instagram account.
Cliff’s award-winning profession as a musician spanned a long time and included a few of reggae’s most memorable hits, together with “Many Rivers to Cross.” He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2010.
Jamaican musician, singer and actor Jimmy Cliff performs through the Timbre Rock and Roots live performance on Friday March 22, 2013 in Singapore.
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“Might Rivers” and two different hits — “You Can Get It If You Actually Need” and “The More durable They Come” — have been standouts on the official soundtrack for a 1972 movie, additionally titled “The More durable They Come,” that featured Cliff as its star.
Cliff performed a younger reggae star who’s drawn into what’s portrayed because the often-seedy world of music manufacturing in Jamaica.
“Cliff’s portrayal is riveting and genuine,” the Grammy Awards wrote in an appraisal of the soundtrack marking 50 years after the film’s launch. It famous that Cliff, who was born James Chambers, had seen not less than a few of what was portrayed within the movie.
“Whereas pursuing a profession as a singer, Cliff noticed firsthand the crime, violence and the survival of the fittest mindset throughout the ghetto areas the place reggae was birthed,” the appraisal stated.
Jimmy Cliff performs dwell on stage on Day 1 on the Singapore Formulation One Grand Prix Marina Bay Road Circuit on the Padang on September 18, 2015 in Singapore.
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Cliff was born on July 30, 1944, throughout a hurricane within the Somerton District of St. James, Jamaica, in keeping with his official biography. Fourteen years later, he had his first hit, “Hurricane Hattie,” starting a profession that stormed on far into this century.
He gained the Grammy for finest reggae album in 1986 for “Cliff Hanger” and once more in 2013 for “Rebirth.” He was nominated a number of different instances.
His songs usually touched on freedom from burdensome environment and authority figures — and fittingly, noting his delivery throughout a hurricane, usually included references to nature and storms.
On “The More durable They Come” he sung of preventing “as certain because the solar will shine,” including just a few traces later, “However I would quite be a free man in my grave/Than residing as a puppet or a slave.”
His spouse in a word to followers posted on Monday stated she was grateful for all the buddies and artists Cliff held expensive.
“To all his followers around the globe, please know that your assist was his power all through his entire profession,” Chambers wrote. “He actually appreciated every fan for his or her love.”
