INTERNATIONAL reggae singer Jimmy Cliff seems to have conquered a new frontier when he performed at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire’s Coachella Valley over the weekend.

According to rollingstone.com, Cliff made his debut on the festival on Sunday with a “masterful” performance to an audience which comprised mainly of patrons in their 20s. He delivered standard classics such as the 1972 hits The Harder They Come and Many Rivers To Cross to an appreciative crowd.

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine following his crowd-winning performance, Cliff was quoted as saying: “I left the stage, and they were still singing One More. I love it.”

The magazine credits Cliff’s renaissance in part to his collaboration with Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, who produced Sacred Fire. The inspiration to release a new LP stemmed from his 2010 induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“There are two things in life: appreciation and encouragement,” Cliff told Rolling Stone. “Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is both of those things. People appreciate you for what you’ve done and encourage you. So the encouragement should motivate you, stimulate you to create something new. That’s what it has done for me with this new album. I hope to see them do that kind of thing, too,” he said.