RETURN OF THE REBEL
Even on his parents’ Jamaican farm, Jimmy Cliff dreamed big. “When I was a very small boy, my cousins and me would look after my family’s cows and goats, and I would talk about towns and countries I wanted to go to. Although they would laugh at me, I always had that kind of thinking.”
Cliff’s new single, Human Touch, released on Jamaican Independence Day, on 6 August, mark ed more than 60 years in music from a man who has always looked to a much larger stage. Cliff-penned songs such as Wonderful World, Beautiful People and You Can Get It If You Really Want are some of Jamaica’s most enduring pop tunes, and he is one of a few surviving musicians – after the deaths of stars such as Toots Hibbert and U-Roy – who can draw a line from ska to today’s global
