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Jimmy Cliff

You Can Get It If You Really Want

Reggae
  • Reggae
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  • Space
  • Pop
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  • 2012
  • 1969
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  • 1993
  • 1976

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Jimmy Cliff, OM (born James Chambers, 1 April 1948) is a Jamaican musician, singer and actor. He is the only currently living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievement in the arts and sciences. Cliff is best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as “Wonderful World, Beautiful People”, “The Harder They Come,“ “Sitting in Limbo”, “You Can Get It If You Really Want” and “Many Rivers to Cross” from the soundtrack to The Harder They Come, which helped popularize reggae across the world; and his 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... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ You can get it if you really want ... Try and try, you'll succeed at last ... But you must try, try and try

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More songs by Jimmy Cliff (See Charts): Hanging Fire, I Can See Clearly Now, Trapped, Wild World, Sitting In Limbo, King Of Kings, Wonderful World, Beautiful People, Vietnam, Let Your Yeah Be Yeah, and Many Rivers To Cross.

Popular in Reggae (See Charts): No Woman, No Cry, Redemption Song, D'Yer Mak'Er, Me Gustas Tu, Red Red Wine, Baby I Love Your Way, Is This Love, Could You Be Loved, Baby I Love Your Way, and Spirits In The Material World.

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