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RIP Jimmy Cliff - Reggae Icon and lead actor in the ground breaking film "The Harder They Come" ~ has died at age 81.
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R.I.P.
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.
He began recording soon after moving from the countryside to Kingston, making several singles before topping the Jamaican charts with his own song, Hurricane Hattie, one of his earliest efforts for Leslie Kong’s Beverly Records, according to the Jamaica Information Service (JIS).
He had several more hits that combined pop and ska influences. After relocating to London in 1965 at the behest of Chris Blackwell of Island Records, Cliff broadened his musical approach to incorporate soul and Rhythm and Blues as he moved in the direction of reggae.
By the late 1960s he was a favourite in South America (having won a prize at a festival in Brazil with his song Waterfall), and his album Wonderful World, Beautiful People was an international hit as well as the record that prompted Paul Simon to investigate reggae.
As the star of The Harder They Come—he contributed to its sound track the classics Many Rivers to Cross, Sitting in Limbo, and the title song—Cliff became reggae’s biggest star
Pneumonia ain't no joke! Sad...even at the age of 81, gone too soon. RIP.
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.
He began recording soon after moving from the countryside to Kingston, making several singles before topping the Jamaican charts with his own song, Hurricane Hattie, one of his earliest efforts for Leslie Kong’s Beverly Records, according to the Jamaica Information Service (JIS).
He had several more hits that combined pop and ska influences. After relocating to London in 1965 at the behest of Chris Blackwell of Island Records, Cliff broadened his musical approach to incorporate soul and Rhythm and Blues as he moved in the direction of reggae.
By the late 1960s he was a favourite in South America (having won a prize at a festival in Brazil with his song Waterfall), and his album Wonderful World, Beautiful People was an international hit as well as the record that prompted Paul Simon to investigate reggae.
As the star of The Harder They Come—he contributed to its sound track the classics Many Rivers to Cross, Sitting in Limbo, and the title song—Cliff became reggae’s biggest star
RIP
RIP
RIP
Yea..
Malcolm Jamal Warner
Jellybean Johnson
H.Rap Brown
Diane Keaton
Udo Kier
Michael Ray Richardson
MC Aesop
..and others we'll hear about later..R.I.P
Sad part is the fact we still have 1 more month left.
Rest in peace.
My mom kept his music in rotation on the home stereo growing up. Used to hear it lots ... good memories.
My mom kept his music in rotation on the home stereo growing up. Used to hear it lots ... good memories.
Rest in peace.
Also add on my girlfriend's asshole...I killed that last night!
R.I.P.
Damn, absolute legend. Gonna have to rewatch The Harder They Come with pops tonight.
RIP
RIP
I can’t think of a worse thing to come out of the HRap honoring thread and see than this thread stickied…
I’m hurting
I’m hurting
Don’t you fuckin come up in here disrespecting with no video evidence to show for it
R.I.P.
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RIP.
And the Orange Moron is still walking and breathing…
And the Orange Moron is still walking and breathing…
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