Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican singer who along with Bob Marley popularised reggae, ska and rocksteady music over 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, northwestern Jamaica, he moved in the 1950s from the family farm to the countrys capital, Kingston, with his father, determined to succeed in the music industry.