FILE - Jamaican musician, singer and actor Jimmy Cliff performs during the Timbre Rock and Roots concert on Friday March 22, 2013 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) NEW YORK ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Jimmy Cliff performs during the Mile High Music Festival at Dick's Sporting Good's Park on Aug. 15, 2010 ...

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 ...

Reggae music icon Jimmy Cliff, who's unique tone, lyricism and breakthrough role on the silver screen helped make the music of his native Jamaica part of popular culture across the globe, has died at ...

Jimmy Cliff, the pioneering reggae artist who helped transform Jamaican music into a global phenomenon, has died at age 81. His wife, Latifa Chambers, shared the heartbreaking news Monday through a ...

Jimmy Cliff, the charismatic reggae pioneer and actor who preached joy, defiance and resilience in such classics as "Many Rivers to Cross," "You Can Get it If You Really Want" and "Vietnam" and ...

“I have a dislike for politicians as they’re not truthful people. It’s the nature of politics that you cannot be straight, you have to lie and cheat,” said the reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, who died on ...

The Jamaican native was also known for his role in the landmark movie, "The Harder They Come." Charismatic reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff, who delivered such iconic songs as "You Can Get It If You Really ...

NEW YORK – 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 ...

NEW YORK — Jimmy Cliff, the charismatic reggae pioneer and actor who preached joy, defiance and resilience in such classics as “Many Rivers to Cross”, “You Can Get it If You Really Want” and “Vietnam” ...

6 Notable Songs From Jimmy Cliff, the Reggae Star Who Has Died at 81 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 ...