58
Jimmy Cliff, 'The Harder They Come' Reggae Giant, Dead at 81 (www.rollingstone.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/music@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Soulful singer and "original rude boy" helped spread genre’s reach from Jamaica to the world with The Harder They Come and hits like "Many Rivers to Cross" and "Wild Word"

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 5 points 11 months ago

Fun fact: ‘The Harder They Come’ was (most probably) the first English-language film shown in the US with subtitles, due to the thick patois used in it.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •