The adverse forces have been teaching me,” Cliff said. I told myself, ‘Look, Jimmy, you have to survive, you have to stay alive,’ and then started thinking what to do to get that bread. “I knew real hunger – walking by the bakery on Spanish Town Road and smelling the bread – if it wasn’t for my home training, I’d break the glass the way I was hungry. While he has more triumphs than he can count on his two hands, The Harder They Come artiste knows trials. That’s how I helped myself go to school,” he continued, noting that life would become harder when he moved to west Kingston to board at another home. “However, when I came to Kingston, I first lived off Windward Road, and at nights I walked around and picked up empty bottles, washed them out, and in the days, sold them to the bottle truck that would come around. It was easy to keep a positive mind living in Somerton,” Cliff told The Gleaner. However, in the country, finding food that we ate, like breadfruit, pumpkin, banana, or other produce, was not difficult. I always share that, economically, our family was not well-off. This, he said, was fundamental to him having a positive outlook on life. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Grammy Award-winning artiste said he had to learn to survive to stay alive, and practised conscious meditation from a young age to cope with hardships. Born in Somerton, St James, Chambers moved to Kingston as a teenager, learned to become a man, and later became the successful reggae, rocksteady, and soul musician known by the name of Jimmy Cliff. Survival is an all-too-familiar story for James Chambers.
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