Our list of the 10 best songs by the reggae legend, from "Dearest Beverley" to "I Can See Clearly Now." Few names are as synonymous with reggae music as Jimmy Cliff. The Grammy-winning artist, whose ...

Jimmy Cliff, who famously sang about the "many rivers" we all must cross, has died after suffering a seizure and pneumonia, his family say.

A giant of Jamaican music, he gained international renown through the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” and helped establish reggae’s themes of struggle, resistance and uplift. By Ben Sisario Much ...

Jimmy Cliff, who died at the age of 81, represented an era when Jamaican music went from ska and rocksteady to the international ambitions of reggae.

Like many Jamaican musicians, Cliff moved to Kingston to try and make his way. He cut his first record after walking into a restaurant and convincing one of the owners, Leslie Kong, to go into the ...