However, he still sent me to college and I did still go to college. And to have a radio in the country, that was a huge thing. You could hear music from America, you could hear music from Cuba, from Latin America. I chose the radio because back in those days, to have a radio, you could hear music from all over the world. Yeah, he asked me between the radio and school what I wanted. And he gave you a choice between higher school lessons and a radio. And so yeah, there was always music, and I was leading the music thing. Because that was how we entertained ourselves.
There was music of dinner, there was music after dinner. There was music for working, there was music for funerals, there was music for burials, there was music for everything. Yeah it was, definitely music all around. Was music all around you, when you started out? Tell us how you came into music, I understand you were raised in a poor family of nine children. It's wonderful to have you on Jimmy, I'm a big fan of yours and I don't know if you know, but New Zealand is a huge fan of reggae. He's coming to New Zealand this week for the Bay of Islands Music Festival, which also features Tami Neilson, Teeks, Katchafire, Swamp Thing and many more. Jimmy was honoured with the Jamaican Order of Merit, the highest honour granted by the Jamaican government, for achievements in the arts and in 2010 was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. Jimmy Cliff's music is a roll call of hits including ‘I Can See Clearly Now’, 'Many Rivers to Cross', and ‘Reggae Night’ and the seminal soundtrack to the movie The Harder They Come, in which he played the lead.
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