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#JimmyCliff: 8 Essential Songs

A giant of #JamaicanMusic, he gained international renown through the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” and helped establish #reggae’s themes of #struggle, #resistance and uplift.

By Ben Sisario
Nov. 24, 2025, 12:12 p.m. ET

“I’d rather be a free man in my grave / Than living as a puppet or a slave.”

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/zOwwB

#RestInPowerJimmyCliff #RIPJimmyCliff #VietnamReisters #AntiWar #BlackMusicians #JamaicanMusicians #Jamaica #MissJamaica #HurricaneHattie #TheHarderTheyCome #ICanSeeClearlyNow #Trapped

Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975)

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Florence Kasumba (born 26 October 1976) is a Ugandan-born German actress.

Milton Nascimento (born October 26, 1942) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Curtis Jonnie (26 October 1946 – 12 January 2021) was an Ojibwe singer and songwriter from Canada

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#indigenous #afrobrazilian #afrolatino #hispanic #latino #firstnation #blacksongwriters #blackmusicians

George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (11 Oct 1778 – 29 Feb 1860) was a British musician, of African descent. He was a virtuoso violinist who lived in [england] for much of his life. His playing impressed Beethoven, who made Bridgetower the original dedicatee of his Kreutzer Sonata.

#blackmen #blackpeople #blackbritish #blackmusicians

Solomon Popoli Linda OIG (1909 – 8 September 1962), also known as Solomon Ntsele ("Linda" was his clan name), was a South African musician

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackafrican #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackmusicians #blacksingers #blackcomposers #blackmusic #blackhistory #blackmastodon

Philip Parris Lynott (20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was [a Black] Irish musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the co-founder, lead vocalist, bassist, and primary songwriter for the

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackirish #blackmusicians #blacksongwriters #blackpoets #blackmastodon

Malcolm-Jamal Warner (August 18, 1970 – July 20, 2025) was [a US-er] actor, musician and poet.

…In July 2025, Warner died, aged 54, from drowning in the ocean off Limón Province,

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackmusicians #blackactors #blackpoets #blackmastodon

@josinaanderson, a Black Goddess wrote:

Cosby Alum Malcolm Jamal Warner's last message before transitioning from the terrestrial to the celestial:

[No matter what's going on, find a reason to smile and

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#tv #greattv #blacktv #blackactors #blackmusicians #blackpoets #blackmastodon

Prince would have been 67 on Saturday
Lance Reddick would have been 63 Saturday
Muammar Al-Gaddafi would have been 82 Saturday

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackfirsts #blacktivists #blacksingers #blackmusicians #blacksongwriters #blackactors #arab #blackmastodon

'William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackjazzcomposers #blackpianists #blacklyricists #blackarrangers #blackcomposers #blackmusicians #blackhistory #blackmastodon

Yes, Chuck Berry Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll

https://www.billboard.com/music/features/chuck-berry-rock-n-roll-teenagers-inventor-7735698/

#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blacksingers #blackmusicians #blackmusic #blackguitarists #blacksongwriters #blackfirsts

King of Cool released in 2021

Dean Martin was not the King of Cool

That is Miles Davis

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Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (né Springer; 15 April 1958 – 7 December 2023) was a British writer, dub poet, actor, musician and professor of

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Ronnie Wilson [April 7th 1948 - November 2nd 2021], co-founding member

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John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(pianist)

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#Equinox by #JohnColtrane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m2HN2y0yV8
#BlackMusicians #SpringEquinox

@lordbonkers.bsky.social‬

The [Black british] soul group Sweet Sensation topped the singles chart in 1974 with Sad Sweet Dreamer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Rrrz0ZfRc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Sensation_(band)

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Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April 1910 or 1914 – 28 February 1983) was a

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Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music,

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#TalkinBoutARevolution by #TracyChapman (1988)

"Don't ya know
They're talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
Don't ya know
They're talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper

[While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sittin' around waitin' for a promotion

Don't ya know?
They're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what's theirs

Don't ya know you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Oh, I said you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run

'Cause finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution
Yes, finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh no
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh no..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8FBjo1Y8I
#BlackMusicians #BlackHistoryMonth #80sMusic #MusicForARevolution #FridayNightMusic #FridayNightMusicVideos

#BlackMusicians

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