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Two kings of world reggae match on the opening night of the Sea of Music, Friday, July 17 at the Auditorio Parque Torres.
And Jimmy Cliff, one of the cornerstones of reggae and ska from the 60, replaces the Mexican band Molotov suspending their European tour because of health problems of one of its members.
Reggae will be the star of the opening of the festival of Cartagena where the Jamaican reggae represented by Jimmy Cliff and Africa represented by one of its most visible leaders, the Ivorian Tiken Jah Fakoly, will come together.
Jimmy Cliff is one of the stars of reggae and ska from the 60s, songwriter reference as Many Rivers to Cross, I Can See Clearly now, Wonderful World, Beautiful People ... The Jamaican composed the soundtrack and also starred in the film The Harder They Come (1972), who popularized reggae worldwide.
He has collaborated with big names in rock, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, Sting and Annie Lennox.
After more than 50 years of career will be responsible for replacing the Mexican band Molotov, one of his only two performances in Spain.
Tickets will be refunded to all people who will not attend the inauguration by this substitution from tomorrow.
Jamaica getting its full independence after centuries of British rule on August 6, 1962. Jimmy Cliff was fourteen, Bob Marley three.
The wave of sensations that flood a country that maintains sovereignty, hatches, in the case of Jamaica, in a creative and musical boom.
Reggae, dub, ska ...
The political situation was complicated in those sixties.
This, coupled with the poor living conditions in the ghettos of cities, led to the emergence of a new culture.
In the 1960s gives way to ska reggae music, steeped in Rastafarian ideology.
In 1964, Jimmy Cliff, a local musician, was chosen as one of the Jamaican representatives to the World's Fair that year.
That experience earned him a British label to notice him.
So in 1968 the first album of Jimmy Cliff appears, Hard road to travel which highlights its first great success, Waterfalls.
In later years they were seeing the light the best works of Jamaican musician.
He album after album, Cliff was leaving gems like Sittin in Limbo, with which reached the second place in the UK charts, or Many Rivers to Cross.
The seventies were consecrating him as one of the figures of Jamaican music.
Wonderful World, Beautiful People and Vietnam gave a huge boost worldwide.
Whereas the same Bob Dylan spoke of Vietnam as one of the best protest songs of all time.
Between 1973 and 1975 he published six albums, including the soundtrack for the film The Harder They Come, in which he plays an important role.
Although during the eighties music he suffers from some creative crisis, in this period signing some of his biggest hits, as Cliff Hanger (1985) for which he won a Grammy Award.
During the nineties he published only three albums, with a break of eight years between the first and the next two.
Although it shakes its evils surprising everyone with two excellent pieces of this new millennium.
Fantastic Plastic People (2002) and Black Magic (2004), an album of duets in which micro share with people like Sting, Joe Strummer and Wyclef Jean.
His latest album Rebirth was published in 2012. After more than 50 year career (his first hit, Hurricane Hattie, succeeded with only 14 years in 1962), it remains headlining numerous festivals in which it participates.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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