Labi Siffre

British vocalist, musician, and artist. Born on 25 June 1945 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. Brought up in London, Siffre is the son of an English mother and a Nigerian father. After jobs such as mini-cab driver and delivery man he started to concentrate on music full-time, leaving for Cannes, France to play guitar with a variety of soul musicians and bands. He returned to the UK in the late 1960s and enjoyed solo hits in 1971 with It Must Be Love (later covered by Madness) and Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying. Although Watch Me (1972) was his last hit of the 1970s, he made a spectacular comeback with (Something Inside) So Strong (1987). In recent years Siffre's work has been reassessed by a new generation after the break from his song I Got The from the [m=171737] album (1975) was sampled by Eminem in his breakthrough hit [m=12114] (1999). Siffre nowadays spends much of his time writing poetry which deals with gay rights and other world issues.