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Article: Jimmy Cliff stays 'rock steady'.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 20, 2004
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Byline: Reed Martin Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
Reggae superstars are often granted a mythic status after they die - but Jimmy Cliff has managed to earn this celebrated status while still here on earth.
The Grammy-winning singer and actor - touring to support a new album of duets with Sting, Annie Lennox, Wyclef Jean, and the late Joe Strummer - is revered as one of the last remaining links to the Bob Marley era and a living personification of its enduring spirit.
"You know, the great thing about reggae is that it is an evolving musical form," says Cliff, speaking by phone from a tour stop in Paris. "Before, it was just Jamaican ...