{"id":11704,"date":"2025-11-28T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11704"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:12:20","slug":"jimmy-cliff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11704","title":{"rendered":"JIMMY CLIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>James Chambers<\/b>\u00a0(30 July 1944 \u2013 24 November 2025), known professionally as\u00a0<b>Jimmy Cliff<\/b>, was a Jamaican\u00a0ska,\u00a0rocksteady,\u00a0reggae\u00a0and\u00a0soul\u00a0musician. He was considered one of Jamaica&#8217;s most celebrated musicians, and has been credited with helping to popularise reggae music internationally. At the time of his death, he was the only living reggae musician to hold the\u00a0Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievements in the arts and sciences. He was also nominated for the\u00a0Grammy Awards\u00a0seven times, winning twice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Cliff\">Read More..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Chambers\u00a0(30 July 1944 \u2013 24 November 2025), known professionally as\u00a0Jimmy Cliff, was a Jamaican\u00a0ska,\u00a0rocksteady,\u00a0reggae\u00a0and\u00a0soul\u00a0musician. He was considered one of Jamaica&#8217;s most celebrated musicians, and has been credited with helping to popularise reggae music internationally. At the time of his death, he was the only living reggae musician to hold the\u00a0Order of Merit, the highest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-11704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reggae-stars","tag-facts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11706,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11704\/revisions\/11706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}