{"id":2174866,"date":"2025-11-24T13:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2174866"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:52:17","slug":"jimmy-cliff-jamaican-reggae-legend-dies-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-cliff-jamaican-reggae-legend-dies-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae legend, dies at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>Jimmy Cliff, the legendary musician who helped popularize reggae around the world and paved the way for future stars of the genre such as Bob Marley, has died. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p>Cliff\u2019s wife, Latifa Chambers, announced the singer\u2019s death in a statement shared <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRb4cExDAa5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monday on social media<\/a>, writing that he \u201ccrossed over due to a seizure followed by pneumonia.\u201d Additional information was not immediately available. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo 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,\u201d the post on Instagram read. <\/p>\n<p>Cliff starred in the 1972 Jamaican crime film, \u201cThe Harder They Come,\u201d and is known for the movie\u2019s title track and other songs, including \u201cMany Rivers to Cross,\u201d and \u201cYou Can Get it If You Really Want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>This story will be updated. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Cliff, the legendary musician who helped popularize reggae around the world and paved the way for future stars of the genre such as Bob Marley, has died. He was 81. Cliff\u2019s wife, Latifa Chambers, announced the singer\u2019s death in a statement shared Monday on social media, writing that he \u201ccrossed over due to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2174867,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2174866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jimmy-Cliff-Jamaican-reggae-legend-dies-at-81.com2F542F7f2F77aa62fb4022b0d8b03e0a10.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174866","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=2174866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174868,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174866\/revisions\/2174868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}