CLIFF, JAMES

CLIFF, JAMES (JIMMY, née JAMES CHAMBERS). Reggae singer (1948 in West Kingston, Jamaica). He was in the troupe of Byron Lee and the Dragonaires of Kingston, Jamaica, when that group performed at the New York World's Fair in 1964, featuring Millie Small as the ska singer. Ska later came to be known as reggae. Thereafter Cliff formed his own groups. He first attracted wide attention in 1971 when he was the leading actor in the first all-Jamaican film, The Harder...