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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The instructions on Wednesday were clear: no serious, sad or long faces. And the crowd filing into a gymnasium in Jamaica’s capital largely obliged as they honored reggae giant ...

The instructions on Wednesday were clear: no serious, sad or long faces. And the crowd filing into a gymnasium in Jamaica’s capital largely obliged as they honored reggae giant Jimmy Cliff. “Jimmy ...

In Kingston, Jamaica, this Dec. 17 belongs to the late Jimmy Cliff. The reggae legend’s official celebration of life, sponsored by the island nation’s government and open to the public (as well as ...

"Jimmy is his name, music is his game," an announcer said before reggae icon Jimmy Cliff took the stage at My Father’s Place in Roslyn on Nov. 24, 1978. After enthusiastic applause from the crowd, ...

A week after his demise, the singer reappeared as one of the genre’s top sellers. This article explores the division of his catalog among several record labels. UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of ...

One thing about Jimmy Cliff, he understood the assignment. “My role was and is inspiring people,” he told me in 1999, backstage in Oracabessa, Jamaica during the filming of a television special ...

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 rising musical ...

The world lost one of the great reggae artists this past week when Jimmy Cliff died at age 81. Cliff’s passing was announced on Monday, November 24, in a message posted on his social media pages by ...

*Jamaican music legend Jimmy Cliff has died at the age of 81. The reggae pioneer passed away on November 24, 2025, following a seizure and pneumonia, his family confirmed. Cliff’s wife, Latifa ...