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Reggae music pioneer passes away

2025-11-24 21:44:03Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Reggae music pioneer passes away

Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican singer who along with Bob Marley popularized reggae, ska and rocksteady music during a six-decade career, has died, his wife Latifa Chambers announced on Facebook on Monday.

The cause was a seizure followed by pneumonia, she said.

Born James Chambers on July 30, 1944 during a hurricane in St. James Parish, in northwestern Jamaica, he moved in the 1950s from the family farm to the country's capital, Kingston, with his father, determined to succeed in the music industry.

At just 14 years old he became nationally famous for the song "Hurricane Hattie," which he wrote himself.

Cliff would go on to record over 30 albums and perform all over the world, including Paris, Brazil, and at the World's Fair, an international exposition held in New York in 1964. The following year, Chris Blackwell of Island Records, the producer who launched Bob Marley and the Wailers, invited Cliff to work in the United Kingdom with him.

Cliff later ventured into acting, starring in the 1972 classic film "The Harder They Come," directed by Perry Henzell, which introduced reggae music to an international audience. The film portrayed the rougher aspects of Jamaican life, redefining the island as more than a tourist playground of cocktails, beaches, and waterfalls.


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