Labi Siffre

Labi Siffre (born June 25, 1945) is an English poet, songwriter, and singer. Born the fourth of five children to a Barbadian/Belgian mother and a Nigerian father and raised in Bayswater and Hampstead, London, he was educated at a Catholic monastery school, St Benedict's School in Ealing. His musical influences included Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Jimmy Reed, Wes Montgomery, Billie Holiday, and Mel Tormé. In July 1964, he met his partner Peter Lloyd