Jimmy Cliff
Actor and Musician
Jamaican classic: You can see it if you really want...aspiring singer who turns bad after he's cheated by a record producer. He assembled a cast of many nonactors, including Cliff, a handsome and wiry Island Records artist. Cliff's photos on an album cover -- one on the front radiating openness... In this article: Jimmy Cliff, Perry Henzell, The Harder They Come, Desmond Dekker, Island Records, and Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts |
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BBC News | April 08, 2009
Marley's mentor gets music honour
...in the music industry. The label signed pioneering artists like Jimmy Cliff, Traffic, Nick Drake and Roxy Music in the 1960s and '70s, and Mr Blackwell discovered future reggae legend Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1972. In 1989, Mr Blackwell...
In this article: Bob Marley, Mr Blackwell, Island Records, U2, Music Week, Peter Grant, Chris Blackwell, and Girls Aloud
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Island story
...22 May. Here - with the help of archive interviews with Island Records' founder Chris Blackwell, and artists including Bryan Ferry, Jimmy Cliff and Bono - we have dug through the label's back catalogue to tell the Island story. Music by...
In this article: Roxy Music, Millie, Cat Stevens, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lord Creator, Island Records, and Island Life
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Wikipedia | September 26, 2009
John Burns (audio engineer)
...Traffic , Mott the Hoople, Fairport Convention, Free , Curved Air, Deep Purple, Marc Bolan and T.Rex, Jeff Beck, Alexis Corner, Jimmy Cliff, Toots & the Maytals and John Martyn, on the sessions that became Martyn's classic ''Solid Air...
In this article: Jethro Tull, Genesis, John Martyn, Andy Johns, Ginger Baker, Burning Spear, Toots & the Maytals, and Island Records
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Aura Lewis
...Brooks in the group United Africa. She was introduced to Jimmy Cliff, who asked her to join him on his 1977 West African tour as a backing vocalist, the tour filmed and released on video as Bongo Man. Cliff's band stopped off in London...
In this article: Lee "Scratch" Perry, Bob Marley, Jamaica, Young Gifted and Black, Johannesburg, and Malaika
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InRich Entertainment | April 10, 2008
Toots: reggae from its roots
...They Come," a film starring singer Jimmy Cliff. "Chris Blackwell [Island Records' founder] and some of the people came up with the idea to make a film with Jimmy Cliff," Hibbert said. "Jimmy was singing before me. I was one of the top...
In this article: Toots and The Maytals, Grammy, Monkey Man, Do the Reggay, Pressure Drop, Chris Blackwell, Nissan, Bob Marley and The Wailers, and The Specials
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Independent.co.uk - Music | June 04, 2008
The beats go on: the rise of reggae's sinister side
...comes to the city to make his fortune, is burnt by Jamaica's corrupt music industry, and in his fury becomes a gun-toting ghetto legend, Cliff offered a microcosm of reggae's impoverished roots, aspirations and eventual, bloody decline. Island...
In this article: Bob Marley, The Harder They Come, Jamaica, Chris Blackwell, 'Til Shiloh, Many Rivers to Cross, and Jimmy Cliff
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Jimmy Cliff OM (born James Chambers, 1 April 1948, Somerton District, St. James, Jamaica) is a Jamaican ska and reggae musician, best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as "Sittin' in Limbo", "You Can Get It If You Really Want It", "Many Rivers to Cross" from soundtrack to The Harder They Come which helped popularize reggae across the world, and for his cover of "I Can See Clearly Now" from the film, Cool Runnings. It's one of life's great ironies that today, outside of reggae circles, Cliff is better known for his film appearances than his music. Even after a string of hits, the singer never quite managed to break into the mainstream, although in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he seemed poised for international stardom.
- Name At Birth:
- James Chambers
- Birth Date:
- April 01, 1948
- Instrument Played:
- Vocal, Guitar, Conga drums
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