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 teens of his time, he moved to Kingston in the early 1960s and joined a ...

Jamaican music icon Jimmy Cliff, whose voice carried the soul of reggae to the world, has passed away at the age of 81. According to his wife, Latifa Chambers, the cause was a seizure followed by ...

Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer, actor and cultural ambassador for reggae music, who starred in and wrote the title song for the iconic 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” has died, according to a ...

Jimmy Cliff death reason: Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican singer who helped take reggae, ska, and rocksteady from the streets of Kingston to the world stage, has died at the age of 81. His wife, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — 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 ...

In Kingston, Jamaica, this Dec. 17 belongs to the late Jimmy Cliff. The reggae legend’s official celebration of life, sponsored by the island nation’s government and open to the public (as well as ...