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Labi Siffre
Early life and educationBorn the fourth of five children, at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, London to a British mother of Barbadian–Belgian descent and a Nigerian father, Siffre was brought up in Bayswater and Hampstead and educated at a Catholic independent day school, St Benedict's School, in Ealing, west London.
Despite his Catholic education Siffre has stated that he has always been an atheist.Musical careerSiffre played at Annie Ross's club in Soho in the 1960s as part of a house band.Six albums were released between 1970 and 1975, and four between 1988 and 1998.
In the early 1970s, he had UK hits with "It Must Be Love" (No.
14, 1971) (later covered by and a No.
4 hit for Madness, for which Siffre himself appeared in the video); "Crying Laughing Loving Lying" (No.
11, 1972); and "Watch Me" (No.
29, 1972).1985: RetirementSiffre came out of self-imposed retirement from music in 1985 when he saw a television film from South Africa showing a white soldier shooting at black children.
He wrote "(Something Inside) So Strong" (No.
4, 1987),.
