Jimmy Cliff Net Worth
Jimmy Cliff Net Worth is
$10 Million
Jimmy Cliff Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jimmy Cliff, OM (born James Chambers, 1 April 1948) is a Jamaican reggae musician, multi instrumentalist, vocalist and performer. He’s the sole living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the greatest honor which can be given by the Jamaican authorities for accomplishments in the arts and sciences. He starred in the movie “The Harder They Come”. Cliff was one of five performers inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.
This album featured collaborations with Joe Strummer, Annie Lennox, and Sting together with new tunes which were quite reminiscent of Cliff’s first hits. In 2004, Cliff totally reworked the tunes, losing the original reggae in favour of a digital sound, for inclusion in Black Magic. The record also contained a record of “Over the Border” with Joe Strummer. Cliff performed in the final service to the 2002 Commonwealth Games and in 2003, his tune “You Can Get It If You Really Want” was within the soundtrack to the movie, Something’s Gotta Give. The Jamaican authorities under P. J. Patterson honored Cliff on 20 October 2003, by giving him The Order of Merit, the country’s third-greatest honour, in recognition of his contributions to the movie and music of Jamaica. Cliff and Mervyn Morris are the only presently living figures in the artwork to hold this distinction and he’s the sole living musician to do this. In 2007, Cliff performed in the opening ceremony at cricket’s World Cup. In 2009, “You Can Get It If You Really Want” was embraced by the British Conservative Party during their annual convention in October 2007. It’s uncertain whether Cliff supported the political party. In September 2009, he was nominated for induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, adhering to a campaign on his behalf from the American, Charles Earle. Cliff responded to the news by saying, “This is beneficial to Cliff, great for Jamaican music and great for my state.” On 15 December 2009, he was formally declared as an inductee and was inducted on 15 March 2010 by Wyclef Jean.
Jimmy Cliff Net Worth $10 Million Dollars
Full Name | Jimmy Cliff |
Net Worth | $10 Million |
Date Of Birth | April 1, 1948 (age 67 |
Place Of Birth | Saint James Parish, Jamaica |
Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.65 m) |
Profession | Singer, Actor, Musician, Artist, Film Score Composer, Music artist |
Nationality | Jamaica |
Children | Odessa Chambers |
Nicknames | James Chambers , Cliff, Jimmy , Jimmy Cliff, OM , El Hadj Naïm Bachir |
Awards | Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album, Grammy Hall of Fame, I Can See Clearly Now, Many Rivers to Cross, You Can Get It If You Really Want |
Nominations | Soul Train Music Award for Best Caribbean Performance (CENTRICTV.com) |
Movies | The Harder They Come, Club Paradise |
Star Sign | Aries |
# | Quote |
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1 | I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better. |
2 | Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write. |
3 | I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition. |
4 | When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat. |
5 | I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me. |
6 | With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too. |
7 | There are goals that I had set out for myself as an artist. I have accomplished some of them - becoming accepted all over the world - however, other parts of my goals have not been completed. |
8 | I regret I didn't ever learn how to fly a plane. I had the opportunity when I started to make some money, and I regret I didn't really take the time out and put the effort in and do that. |
9 | People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?' |
10 | Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life. |
11 | It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived. |
12 | I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see the world... towns, cities, countries, I wanted to see them all. |
13 | My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother. |
14 | I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance. |
15 | In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me. |
16 | I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all. |
17 | If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic. |
18 | I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe. |
19 | The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing. |
20 | I'm the kind of person who likes to hang out and observe what's going on in the streets, or in certain places. I used to do that a lot. But having to become an international superstar, I can't do that comfortably! But it's all positive, you know. |
21 | I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel. |
22 | The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica. |
23 | I would love to see no more ghettos, but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight! An upper class, more educated person - they find a diplomatic way to tell you the thing. I love it when you just come heart to heart. That's the way I knew it coming up, so that's the way I like it. |
24 | Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot. |
25 | It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.' |
26 | People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning. |
27 | If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity. |
28 | My records were becoming hits in South Africa, they were songs they were using to fight the Apartheid system. I didn't have clear knowledge of the embargo but if I had I still would have gone because it was what my singing was about. I was not going to Sun City to earn money, I was going to Soweto to sing to the people who had been using my music for freedom. I don't regret it. Before we went on we could feel tension in the air because all races were there, like something is going to erupt tonight but the moment I sang, people felt joy and happiness, because music brings all peoples together. |
29 | I met Paul Simon and he said to me that he and Bob Dylan sat up for a whole night together listening to my albums one after another. That made me proud. |
# | Fact |
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1 | Charted with "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" to #25 on Billboard's Top 40 in 1969. |
2 | Bob Dylan called Cliff's single "Vietnam" the best protest song he had ever heard. |
3 | Jamaican reggae musician. |
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Alles nur Tarnung | 1996 | writer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" | |
The Long Kiss Goodnight | 1996 | performer: "Many Rivers To Cross" / writer: "Many Rivers To Cross" | |
Children of the Revolution | 1996 | performer: "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" / writer: "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" | |
Nothing Personal | 1995 | performer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" / writer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" | |
Rude | 1995 | performer: "Many Rivers to Cross" / writer: "Many Rivers to Cross" | |
Roommates | 1995 | writer: "MANY RIVERS TO CROSS" | |
Jason's Lyric | 1994 | writer: "Many Rivers to Cross" | |
Cool Runnings | 1993 | performer: "I Can See Clearly Now" | |
Cool as Ice | 1991 | writer: "Sitting in Limbo" - as Cliff | |
Marked for Death | 1990 | performer: "No Justice", "John Crow", "Rebel In Me" / writer: "No Justice", "John Crow", "Rebel In Me" | |
Lost Angels | 1989 | writer: "Many Rivers to Cross" | |
Scandal | 1989 | writer: "Miss Jamaica" - uncredited | |
Iron Eagle II | 1988 | writer: "Trapped" | |
Cocktail | 1988 | performer: "Shelter Of Your Love" / producer: "Shelter Of Your Love" / writer: "Shelter Of Your Love" | |
Something Wild | 1986 | performer: "You Don't Have to Cry" | |
Sitting in Limbo | 1986 | performer: "Sitting In Limbo", "Struggling Man", "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "Let Your Yeah Be Yeah", "Many Rivers To Cross", "Sooner Or Later" / writer: "Sitting In Limbo", "Struggling Man", "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "Let Your Yeah Be Yeah", "Many Rivers To Cross", "Sooner Or Later" | |
Club Paradise | 1986 | performer: "Club Paradise", "American Plan", "Brightest Star", "The Lion Awakes", "Third World People", "You Cant Keep A Good Man Down", "Seven-Day Weekend", "Island In The Sun" / writer: "Club Paradise", "American Plan", "Brightest Star", "The Lion Awakes", "Third World People", "You Cant Keep A Good Man Down", "Seven-Day Weekend" | |
Miami Vice | TV Series writer - 2 episodes, 1985 - 1986 performer - 1 episode, 1986 | ||
Jimmy Cliff: Hot Shot | 1985 | Video short performer: "Hot Shot" / writer: "Hot Shot" | |
DTV: Rock, Rhythm & Blues | 1984 | Video performer: "Wonderful World, Beautiful People", "You Can Get It If You Really Want" / writer: "Wonderful World, Beautiful People", "You Can Get It If You Really Want" | |
D.C. Cab | 1983 | performer: "Vietnam" | |
Saturday Night Live | 1981 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
If Mother Could See Me Now | 1974 | performer: "Sitting Here in Limbo", "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "The Harder They Come", "Many Rivers to Cross" - uncredited / writer: "Sitting Here in Limbo", "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "The Harder They Come", "Many Rivers to Cross" - uncredited | |
The Harder They Come | 1972 | performer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "Many Rivers To Cross", "The Harder They Come", "Sitting Here In Limbo" / writer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "Many Rivers To Cross", "The Harder They Come", "Sitting Here In Limbo" | |
Goliath | 2016 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Champion of Champions | 2015 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Parenthood | 2015 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Waterloo Road | 2014 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Wilfred | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2014 writer - 1 episode, 2014 | ||
Independent Lens | TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode, 2014 writer - 1 episode, 2014 | ||
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | TV Mini-Series documentary performer - 1 episode, 2013 writer - 1 episode, 2013 | ||
The X Factor | 2013 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Rush | 2013/I | performer: "Many Rivers to Cross" / writer: "Many Rivers to Cross" | |
Death in Paradise | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2013 writer - 1 episode, 2013 | ||
Muscle Shoals | 2013 | Documentary performer: "Sitting Here in Limbo" / writer: "Sitting Here in Limbo" | |
Warm Bodies | 2013 | performer: "Sitting in Limbo" / writer: "Sitting in Limbo" | |
The Voice | 2012 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
The Voice UK | 2012 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
The Pirates! Band of Misfits | 2012 | writer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" | |
Hawaii Five-0 | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2012 | ||
EastEnders | 2011 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Falling Skies | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2011 writer - 1 episode, 2011 | ||
Case départ | 2011 | performer: "Many Rivers to Cross" / writer: "Many Rivers to Cross" | |
Ruisrock - 40 vuotta rockia ja rakkautta | 2011 | TV Movie documentary performer: "The Harder They Come" / writer: "The Harder They Come" | |
Les neiges du Kilimandjaro | 2011 | writer: "Many Rivers to Cross" | |
This Is England '86 | TV Mini-Series performer - 1 episode, 2010 writer - 1 episode, 2010 | ||
Made in Dagenham | 2010 | writer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" - as Cliff | |
Late Show with David Letterman | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2010 writer - 1 episode, 2010 | ||
Animal Kingdom | 2010 | performer: "Sitting in Limbo" / writer: "Sitting in Limbo" | |
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief | 2010 | TV Movie documentary writer: "Many Rivers To Cross" | |
Der Mann auf der Brücke | 2009 | TV Movie writer: "You can get it" | |
Fool's Gold | 2008/I | writer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" | |
Secret Diary of a Call Girl | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2007 writer - 1 episode, 2007 | ||
Griffin & Phoenix | 2006 | performer: "I Can See Clearly Now" | |
This Is England | 2006 | writer: "Let's Dance" | |
Big Love | 2006 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Mission: Impossible III | 2006 | performer: "Come into My Life" / writer: "Come into My Life" | |
Into the Blue | 2005 | performer: "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" / writer: "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" | |
In Her Shoes | 2005 | performer: "Sitting in Limbo" 1970 / writer: "Sitting in Limbo" 1970 | |
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live | 2005 | TV Special documentary performer: "The Harder They Come" / writer: "The Harder They Come" | |
Runt | 2005 | performer: "Sitting in Limbo", "The Harder They Come", "Bongo Man", "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" / writer: "Sitting in Limbo", "The Harder They Come", "Bongo Man", "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" | |
Hitch | 2005/I | performer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" 1970 / writer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" 1970 | |
Blackpool | 2004 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Peace One Day | 2004 | Documentary performer: "Peace One Day", "I Can See Clearly Now" / writer: "Peace One Day" | |
Something's Gotta Give | 2003 | performer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" / writer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" | |
One Tree Hill | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2003 writer - 1 episode, 2003 | ||
Anita & Me | 2002 | performer: "Wonderful World, Beautiful people" / writer: "Wonderful World, Beautiful people" - as J. Cliff | |
Love, Honor and Obey | 2000 | writer: "The Harder They Come" | |
The Muse | 1999 | performer: "Let Your Yeah Be Yeah" / writer: "Let Your Yeah Be Yeah" | |
The Match | 1999 | writer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" | |
East Is East | 1999 | performer: "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" 1970 / writer: "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" 1970 | |
Speed 2: Cruise Control | 1997 | performer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" / writer: "You Can Get It If You Really Want" - as James E. Chambers | |
Acústico MTV: Titãs | 1997 | TV Movie performer: "Querem Meu Sangue" / writer: "Querem Meu Sangue" |
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Rude Boy: The Jamaican Don | 2003 | Wise Man | |
Club Paradise | 1986 | Ernest Reed | |
Jimmy Cliff: Hot Shot | 1985 | Video short | Jimmy Cliff |
The Harder They Come | 1972 | Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin |
Composer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
---|---|---|---|
Moana and the Moa Hunters- Rebel in Me | 2005 | Short | |
Jimmy Cliff: Hot Shot | 1985 | Video short | |
Bongo Man | 1982 | Documentary | |
The Harder They Come | 1972 |
Music Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Squidbillies | 2016 | TV Series main title theme performed by - 1 episode | |
Jimmy Cliff: Hot Shot | 1985 | Video short lyricist |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! | 2010 | special thanks |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Lennon or McCartney | 2014 | Documentary short | Himself |
Independent Lens | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Access Hollywood Live | 2013 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Muscle Shoals | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
Jimmy Cliff Live at the Ogden Theatre | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | |
Late Show with David Letterman | 1993-2012 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Musical Guest |
Marley | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | 2011 | TV Series | Himself - Musical Guest |
Tavis Smiley | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
Glastonbury 2011 | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
Toots and the Maytals Reggae Got Soul | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Austin City Limits | 2010 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Musical guest |
The Colbert Report | 2010 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Musical Guest |
The 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | 2010 | TV Movie | Himself |
Later... With Jools Holland | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
Seitenblicke | 2008 | TV Series documentary | |
10 mai Africaphonie | 2008 | Documentary | |
ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 Opening Ceremonies | 2007 | TV Movie | Performer |
Roots of Reggae: The Ernest Ranglin Story | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Rebel Salute | 2005 | Video documentary | |
Reggae: The Story of Jamaican Music | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Top of the Pops 2 | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
Never Mind the Buzzcocks | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
MOBO Awards 2002 | 2002 | TV Special | Himself |
Top Ten | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
One Love: The Bob Marley All-Star Tribute | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Performer |
Space Ghost Coast to Coast | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
Acústico MTV: Titãs | 1997 | TV Movie | Himself |
Les enfants de la guerre | 1996 | TV Movie | Himself |
Si on chantait | 1995 | TV Series | Himself |
Taratata | 1995 | TV Series | Himself |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 1995 | TV Series | Himself - Musical Guest |
Rock in Rio | 1991 | TV Series | Himself |
Marked for Death | 1990 | Himself | |
Late Night with David Letterman | 1985-1989 | TV Series | Himself |
A Reggae Session | 1988 | TV Movie | Himself |
The Day of Five Billion | 1987 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Sun City: Artists United Against Apartheid | 1986 | Video documentary | Himself |
Àngel Casas Show | 1986 | TV Series | Himself |
Artists United Against Apartheid: Sun City | 1985 | Video short | Himself (uncredited) |
Champs-Elysées | 1984 | TV Series | Himself |
Bongo Man | 1982 | Documentary | Himself |
Caribbean Nights: The Bob Marley Story | 1982 | Documentary | Himself |
Saturday Night Live | 1976-1981 | TV Series | Himself - Musical Guest |
Grandes Nomes | 1980 | TV Series | |
Paul | 1978 | TV Series | Himself |
Beats of the Heart: Roots Rock Reggae | 1977 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Roots Rock Reggae | 1977 | Documentary | Himself |
Rock Concert | 1975 | TV Series | Himself |
In Concert | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
Disco | 1971 | TV Series | |
Top of the Pops | 1969-1970 | TV Series | Himself |
4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet | 1969 | TV Series | Himself - Musician |
Lift Off | 1969 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Bouton Rouge | 1967 | TV Series documentary | |
Beat-Club | 1967 | TV Series | Himself - Musician |
Ready, Steady, Go! | 1965 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Livicated | Documentary post-production | Himself | |
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence | 2008 | TV Series | Ivan Martin in 'The Harder They Come' |
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live | 2005 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
DTV: Rock, Rhythm & Blues | 1984 | Video | Himself |
Beat-Club | 1967 | TV Series | Himself - Musician |
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2015 | Grammy | Grammy Awards | Best R&B Song |
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