Jimmy Cliff's Best Songs: 'Harder They Come,' 'Many Rivers to Cross'

In 2020, Jimmy Cliff explained his view of the afterlife to Rolling Stone . “From our religious background, our concept of when someone cross over — we don’t say they ‘pass away,’ we say ‘cross over,’ they just go to the other side of existence, there’s no such thing as death — and then they go out there and they vibrate for however many days before they go to a higher height.” He was speaking then about his friend and fellow reggae icon Toots Hibbert ; five years later, Cliff has crossed over , too, and few would question that he’s on his way to a higher height indeed. He was one of the first acts to take reggae music from Jamaica to the world, playing an irreplaceable role in introducing countless listeners to the sounds that moved his soul. Here are 10 of the best songs from his l