{"id":2174802,"date":"2025-11-24T13:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2174802"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:04:13","slug":"jimmy-cliff-grammy-winning-reggae-legend-dead-age-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-cliff-grammy-winning-reggae-legend-dead-age-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Cliff, Grammy-Winning Reggae Legend, Dead Age 81"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Jamaican reggae music icon Jimmy Cliff has died at the age of 81, his family has announced.<\/p>\n

Cliff’s wife, Latifa, said he had died “due to a seizure followed by pneumonia” in a post on his official Instagram page.<\/p>\n

“I am thankful for his family, friends, fellow artists and coworkers who have shared his journey with him,” her statement said.<\/p>\n

“To all his fans around the world, please know that your support was his strength throughout his whole career. He really appreciated each and every fan for their love.” <\/p>\n

She added: “Jimmy, my darling, may you rest in peace. I will follow your wishes.”<\/p>\n

This is a breaking news<\/a> story. Updates to follow.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newsweek.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jamaican reggae music icon Jimmy Cliff has died at the age of 81, his family has announced. Cliff’s wife, Latifa, said he had died “due to a seizure followed by pneumonia” in a post on his official Instagram page. “I am thankful for his family, friends, fellow artists and coworkers who have shared his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2174803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22188,22062,387988,21800,355368],"class_list":["post-2174802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-breaking-news","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-jimmy-cliff","tag-music","tag-reggae"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jimmy-Cliff-Grammy-Winning-Reggae-Legend-Dead-Age-81.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174804,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174802\/revisions\/2174804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}