Jimmy Cliff, who died at the age of 81, represented an era when Jamaican music went from ska and rocksteady to the international ambitions of reggae.

Cliff, who died Nov. 24 of pneumonia at his home in Kingston at age 81, soon had a cult following that spread far beyond West ...

Like many Jamaican musicians, Cliff moved to Kingston to try and make his way. He cut his first record after walking into a restaurant and convincing one of the owners, Leslie Kong, to go into the ...