Labi Siffre
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Claudius Afolabi "Labi" Siffre (born 25 June 1945) is a British singer, composer, guitarist, and poet.
Siffre released six albums between 1970 and 1975, four between 1988 and 1998.
He has written articles, stage and television plays Deathwrite, as well as three volumes of poetry: Nigger, Blood on the Page and Monument.
Early life and education
Claudius Afolabi Siffre was born in Hammersmith, London, as the fourth of five children at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith, London, to a British mother of mixed Barbadian and Belgian descent and a Nigerian father. Siffre was born in Bayswater and Hampstead and educated at St Benedict's School, a Catholic independent day school in Ealing, West London. Despite his Catholic education, Siffre has maintained that he has always been an atheist.
In Wardour Street, Soho, he studied music at the Eric Gilder School of Music. In his poem "education education," Gilder is remembered with gratitude. Siffre spent time as a taxi driver and a deliveryman before deciding to focus on music after leaving school. He went to Cannes, France, where he performed guitar with many soul musicians and bands, but in the late 1960s, he returned to the United Kingdom.
Personal life
Peter Lloyd, Siffre's brother, was born in July 1964 and the pair were together for 48 years. They formed a civil partnership in 2005, the first time in the United Kingdom was legally recognised. He and Siffre lived in a ménage à trois with Rudolf van Baardwijk in Crickhowell, South Wales, from the mid-1990s to Lloyd's death in 2013. Van Baardwijk himself died in 2015. Siffre now lives in Spain.
Siffre appeared on BBC Radio 4's Great Lives in 2014, celebrating British author Arthur Ransome's life. Ransome's Swallows and Amazons books had taught him responsibility for his own behavior as well as a morale that has inspired and influenced him throughout his life, according to Siffre.
Musical career
Siffre performed jazz guitar at Annie Ross' jazz club in Soho, London, in the 1960s as part of a Hammond organ, guitar, and drums house band.
He has six albums between 1970 and 1975. Three of his singles, "It Must Be Love," were hits in the early 1970s. (later covered by and a No. 77), and performed the song on the BBC's Top of the Pops on Saturday). Madness's 4th hit, for which Siffre himself appeared in the film; "Crying Laughing Lying" (No. No. 11, 1972); and "Watch Me" (No. (British Columbia, 1972) Siffre appeared in the heats in 1978 to represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest. "Solid Love," He performed his own composition, which placed fifth of the twelve songs up for consideration at the A Song for Europe contest. In addition, he co-wrote the Bob James' "We Got It Bad" - his tenth entry.
Siffre came out of self-imposed music in 1985 when he saw a television film from Apartheid South Africa depicting a white soldier shooting at black kids. (Something Inside) So Strong) He wrote ""So Strong" (No. He appeared on Top of the Pops and released four more albums between 1988 and 1998.
Multiple parts of Siffre's 1975 album "I Got the Right" were sampled in hip hip hop songs, most notably in 1999 Eminem's "My Name Is." As a result of the song's revival, it was finally released as a single in 2006.
Kanye West was included in "I Wonder" off his third album Graduation, Siffre's 1972 song "My Song," the tenth track on his junior album Crying Laughing Lying.
This Is My Song, by Alan Yentob, was broadcast on BBC Radio in February 2022 as part of the Imagine series, in which Alan Yentob produced a film about Siffre's life and work.