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CLIFF Jimmy
(voc)

Personal Data:

Born:

01.04.1948

(St. James, Jamaica, as James Chambers)

Former Members:

Earl "Chinna" Smith (g, cca 6/80); Trevor Brown (g, cca 6/80)
Cecil Haynes (bg, cca 6/80)
Philip Ramacon (kb, cca 6/80)
Llewellyn (ds, cca 6/80); Sidney Wolfe (perc, cca 6/80)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Hard Road To Travel	1967	Island
2.	Jimmy Cliff	12/1969	Trojan
3.	Another Cycle	1971	Island
4.	The Harder They Come	1973	Island
5.	Unlimited	8/1973	EMI
6.	Music Maker	1974
7.	Struggling Man	5/1974	Island
8.	House Of Exile	31.05.1974	EMI
9.	Pop Chronik Vol 9	1975	2LP
10.	Brave Warrior	8/1975	EMI
11.	Follow My Mind	9/1975	Reprise
12.	Goodbye Yesterday	1976
13.	Oh Jamaica	1976
14.	Live In Concert	1976	Reprise
15.	Best Of Jimmy Cliff	3/1976	Island
16.	Wonderful World	1977
17.	In Concert - Best Of Jimmy Cliff	1978	Reprise
18.	Give Thanx	1978	Warner Bros
19.	Sense Of Direction	1979
20.	Can't Get Enough	1979
21.	I Am The Living	7/1980	Warner Bros
22.	Give The People What They Want	9/1981	Warner Bros
23.	Special	06.08.1982	CBS
24.	The Power & The Glory	10/1983	CBS
25.	Cliff Hanger	8/1985	CBS
26.	Fundamental Reggay	2/1987	See For Miles
27.	Hanging Fire	3/1988	CBS
28.	Images	10/1989	Cliff
29.	Save Our Planet Earth	1990	Intercord
30.	Breakout	1/1993	Ammi/JMS
31.	Born To Win	2/1993	EMI
32.	Live	8/1994	Rhino
33.	The Cool Runner Live In London	2/1995	More Music
34.	Gold Collection	8/1995	Sony
35.	Higher & Higher	05.05.1998
36.	Samba Reggae	09.03.1999
37.	Shout For Freedom	27.04.1999
38.	Humanitarian	29.06.1999
39.	The Ultimate Collection	23.11.1999	Hip-O
40.	You Can Get It If You Really Want ... Best Of	25.07.2000	Music Club
41.	We All Are One: The Best of Jimmy Cliff	11.06.2002	Columbia/Legacy
42.	Black Magic produced by: Dave Stewart featuring: Sting, Annie Lennox, Wyclef Jean, Jools Holland, Kool And The Gang, Yannick Noah, Joe Strummer	24.08.2004	Artemis
43.	20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Jimmy Cliff	20.04.2004	Island
44.	Harder They Come: The Early Years 1962-1972	23.10.2006	Trojan
45.	The Harder They Come	25.12.2006	Simply Vinyl
46.	Reggae Legends	10.06.2008	Sanctuary
47.	King Of Kings: The Very Best Of Jimmy Cliff (2CD)	22.12.2008	Spectrum
48.	Harder Road to Travel: Collection	28.09.2010	Spectrum Audio
49.	Sacred Fire	29.11.2011
50.	Rebirth	16.07.2012	Trojan		83	76
51.	Icon	19.03.2013	UMe
52.	The KCRW Session	19.03.2013	Universal

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Hurrican Hatty / Dearest Beverley (na Jamajce)	1962
2.	Miss Jamaica / Gold Digger (na Jamajce)	1962
3.	Since Lately / I'm Free (na Jamajce)	1962
4.	My Lucky Day / One Eyed Jacks (na Jamajce)	1962
5.	King Of Kings (na Jamajce)	1963
6.	Miss Universe / The Prodigal (na Jamajce)	1963
7.	The Man / You Are Never Too Old	1963	Black Swan
8.	One Eyed Jacks / The King Of Kings	9/1964	Stateside
9.	Call On Me / Pride And Passion	1/1966	Fontana
10.	I'm Sorry	1966	Blue Beat
11.	I've Got A Feeling / Hard Road To Travel	1967	Island
12.	That's The Way Life Goes / Thank You	1967	Island
13.	Aim And Ambition / Give And Take	2/1967	Island
14.	Set Me Free / Here I Come & Jackie Edwards	6/1968	Island
15.	Waterfall / Reward	7/1968	Island
16.	Wonderful World, Beautiful People / Hard Road To Travel	10/1969	Trojan	6
17.	Wonderful World, Beautiful People / Waterfall	11/1969	A&M		25
18.	Vietnam / She Does It Right	23.01.1970	Trojan	46
19.	Come Into My Life / Vietnam	2/1970	A&M		89
20.	You Can Get It If You Really Want / Be Aware	5/1970	A&M
21.	Sufferin' In The Land	5/1970
22.	Wild World / Be Aware	8/1970	Island	7
23.	Sitting In Limbo / The Bigger They Come	1971	Island
24.	Trapped / Strugglin' Man	1971	Island
25.	Synthetic World / I Go To Pieces	1971	Chrysalis
26.	Goodbye Yesterday / Breakdown	2/1971	Island
27.	The Harder They Come / Many Rivers To Cross	1972	Island
28.	Born To Win / Black Queen	1973	Reprise
29.	Many Rivers To Cross / Wonderful World, Beautiful People	1973	Island
30.	On My Life / Oh Jamaica	27.07.1973	EMI
31.	Fundamental Reggae / The Money Version	02.11.1973	EMI
32.	Music Maker / You Can't Be Wrong And Get It Right	1974	Reprise
33.	Look What You've Done To My Life, Devil Woman / I've Been Dead 400 Years	03.05.1974	EMI
34.	Money Won't Save You / You Can't Be Wrong And Get It Right	7/1974	EMI
35.	Don't Let It Die / Action Speak Louder Than Words	06.12.1974	EMI
36.	Oh Jamaica / A Million Teardrops	12.09.1975	EMI
37.	Harder They Come (live) / Vietnam (live)	1976	Reprise
38.	The Harder They Come / Let Your Yeah Be Yeah	1976	Island
39.	Look At The Mountains / No Woman No Cry	19.03.1976	Reprise
40.	You Can Get It If You Really Want / Many Rivers To Cross	20.05.1977	Island
41.	Wild World / You Can Get It If You Really Want / The Harder They Come / Wonderful World, Beautiful People	07.04.1978	Island
42.	Many Rivers To Cross / Rivers Of Babylon & The Melodians	28.07.1978	Island
43.	Stand Up And Fight Back / Footprints	12.01.1979	Warner Bros
44.	All The Strength We Got / Love Again	6/1980	Warner Bros
45.	I Am The Living	15.08.1980	WEA
46.	Another Summer / Satan's Kingdom	10/1980	Warner Bros
47.	Another Summer / It's The Beginning Of The End	1/1981	Warner Bros
48.	Wild World / Be Aware	7/1981	Island
49.	My Philosophy / Shelter Of Your Love	9/1981	Warner Bros
50.	Roots Radical / Rub-A-Dub Partner	2/1982	CBS
51.	Peace Officer / Special	6/1982	Columbia
52.	Midnight Rockers / True Lovers	7/1982	CBS
53.	Special / Keep On Dancing (dub)	9/1982	CBS
54.	Love Is / Originator / Roots Radical	1/1983	CBS
55.	Many Rivers To Cross	1983	Trojan
56.	Wonderful World, Beautiful People / Suzanne Beware Of The Devil & Dandy Livingstone	4/1983	Old Gold
57.	Treat The Youths Right	5/1983
58.	Reggae Nights / Love Heights	10/1983	CBS	91
59.	We All Are One / Roots Woman	1/1984	Columbia
60.	We All Are One / No Apology 12" + Pice Of The Pie	1/1984	CBS	93
61.	Sunshine In The Music	2/1984
62.	Reggae Movement / Treat The Youths Right	8/1984	CBS
63.	Hotshot / Modern World 12" + Reggae Night / Hotshot (instrumental)	7/1985	CBS
64.	American Sweet / Reggae Movement	8/1985	Columbia
65.	7-Day Weekend / Brightest Star & Elvis Costello And The Attractions	1986	Columbia
66.	Club Paradise / Third World People	1986	Columbia
67.	Love Me Love Me / Sunshine In The Music	3/1988	Columbia
68.	Pressure	2/1989	Greensleeves
69.	I Can See Clearly Now	10/1993	Work/Columbia	19	18
70.	Hakuna Matata & Lebo M	4/1995
71.	Melody Tempo Harmony & Bernard Lavilliers	7/1995
72.	Fantastic Plastic People vs Audiodrive	04.08.2003	Dirty Skankin' Sounds
73.	Roots Radikal / Walk And Skank (Radikal Roots re edit) & Jah Screechy	13.06.2005	Roots
74.	Bongo Man	29.05.2006	Beverley's
75.	Wild World	12.06.2006	Beverley's
76.	Come Into My Life	19.06.2006	Beverley's
77.	Hard Road To Travel	19.06.2006	Beverley's
78.	I Can See Clearly Now	19.06.2006	Beverley's
79.	Kings Of Kings	19.06.2006	Beverley's
80.	Sitting In Limbo	19.06.2006	Beverley's
81.	Time Will Tell	19.06.2006	Beverley's
82.	You Can Get It If You Really Want	19.06.2006	Beverley's
83.	Suffering In The Land	31.07.2006	Beverley's
84.	Rebel In Me	17.09.2007	Oneness
85.	Kings Of Kings / You Can Get It If You Really Want & Desmond Dekker & The Aces	14.07.2008	Beverley's
86.	Wild World / You Can Get It If You Really Want & Desmond Dekker & The Aces	18.08.2008	Beverley's
87.	Trapped	22.09.2008	Gold Series
88.	Reggae Down Babylon	04.06.2009	Oneness
89.	Miss Jamaica	08.12.2010	Beverley's
90.	Honour Your Mother & Father / King Of Kings & Desmond Dekker	07.08.2013	Beverley's
91.	Forward March / Miss Jamaica & Derrick Morgan	07.08.2013	Beverley's
92.	Rudie's In Court / Bongo Man & Derrick Morgan	17.04.2015	Beverley's

Movies:

1. The Harder They Come (1972, music by, starring)

Awards:

1985 Grammy Awards - Best Reggae Recording (LP "Cliff Hanger")
2002 MOBO Awards - Contribution To Urban Music
2002 Q Awards - Classic Songwriter
2008 Grammy Hall Of Fame (LP "The Harder They Come", 1973)
2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2011 Grammy Hall Of Fame (SP "Many Rivers To Cross", 1969)
2012 Grammy Awards - Best Reggae Album ("Rebirth")

Various:

cca 1980-1982 backedná kapela Oneness

appeared on the LP:

Jools Holland: More Friends - Small World Big Band 2 (11/02, WSM)

Press References:

Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1970	0	24.01.1970	23		single review
1971	0	16.01.1971	8
1973	30	28.07.1973	24	New Singles	single review
1974	24	15.06.1974	47	Albums	album review
1975	41	11.10.1975	51	Reggae	single review
1975	50	13.12.1975	59	Caught In The Act	gig review
1977	21	21.05.1977	21	Singles	single review
1978	30	29.07.1978	17	Singles	single review
1979	2	13.01.1979	20	Singles	single review
1980	27	16.08.1980	12	Single File	single review
1981	42	17.10.1981	14	Albums	album review
1982	28	10.07.1982	4	Fast Forward
1983	19	07.05.1983	16	It's Alive	gig review
1984	30	08.09.1984	27	Singles	single review
New Musical Express
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1972	0	02.09.1972	41
1973	0	01.09.1973	32	Albums	album review
1974	0	04.05.1974	2	News Desk
1974	0	07.09.1974	32	Reggae
1974	0	05.10.1974	39	On The Town	gig review
1975	0	23.08.1975	29	Soul
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1994	7	11.04.1994	7	Galerie
2004	10		77	Recenze	album review