We already knew that SXSW 40 would launch with I Love Boosters, the highly-anticipated new provocation from director Boots Riley. But the festival will keep the good times going with even more ...

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 ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — 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 ...

"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 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 ...

“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 iconic reggae star who helped transform Jamaica’s rhythmic music into a global cultural phenomenon, Jimmy Cliff, has died, his wife said Monday. He was 81. “It is with profound sadness that I ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

Reggae singer, songwriter and actor Jimmy Cliff died on November 24, 2025, his family, including wife Latifa Chambers, announced that day. Cliff was 81, and his spouse revealed his cause of death in ...

Even in 1969, Jimmy Cliff, who died Monday at age 81, could see what was coming. Though British rule over his home country of Jamaica ended in 1962, independence and economic mismanagement led to high ...