Jimmy Cliff
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"Jimmy Cliff", Jamaican Order of Merit/OM is a Jamaican reggae musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and actor. He is the only living musician to hold the Jamaican Order of Merit/Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievements in the arts and sciences.

Cliff is best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as "Wonderful World, Beautiful People", "The Harder They Come (song)/The Harder They Come", "Sitting in Limbo", "You Can Get It If You Really Want" and "Many Rivers to Cross" from the The Harder They Come (soundtrack)/soundtrack to The Harder They Come, which helped popularize reggae across the world, and his cover version/covers of Cat Stevens' "Wild World" and Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" from the film Cool Runnings. He starred in the film The Harder They Come. Cliff was one of five performers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.

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Many Rivers to Cross.

Now you can manufacture just about what you want and after just a little time the artist is forgotten and gone.

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.

It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. I was known as a singer songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

It's phase we're going through. Eventually, what is real will be sought after again.

[Peter, a muscle-bound 25-year-old Nigerian with knockout power but very little finesse, entered the ring to the strains of] The Harder They Come, ... the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all.