Lorrie Matheson. Photo by Sebastian Buzzalino. Lorrie Matheson wrote the song Something or Someone in 1989. He was barely in his 20s at the time and had decided to move from Calgary to Vernon, B.C.
As he gears up for the release of a new collection of poetry and a huge new UK tour - including a homecoming show at ...
Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican singer who along with Bob Marley popularised reggae, ska and rocksteady music over a ...
Jimmy Cliff, who was a presence at the birth of modern Jamaican music and helped spread the influence of reggae around the ...
Jimmy Cliff, who has died aged 81, was a singer, songwriter and actor whose work opened up the music and culture of Jamaica to an international audience.
Cliff, at the request of singer Desmond Dekker, invited Bob Marley to record his first song Judge Not at Federal studios in ...
Unlike some songwriters, Tanita reveals that she doesn’t feel the need to constantly put pen to paper. “I’m incredibly lazy!” she laughs, “I’m not like some mad artist who has to produce all the time.
An itinerant ambassador who introduced the music and culture of his island to audiences across the world at a time when ...
Jimmy Cliff, reggae music pioneer and star of The Harder They Come, has died at the age of 81. Read his obituary here.
When attempting to tackle the Burt Bacharach songbook, Todd Rundgren found one song's co-writer to be an emotional challenge ...
Jimmy Cliff, the charismatic reggae pioneer and actor who preached joy, defiance and resilience in such classics as “Many ...
Cliff's career peaked with "The Harder They Come," but, after a break in the late 1970s, he worked for decades with the ...