# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/labi-siffre
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:09:13.718Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/labi-siffre"
name: "Labi Siffre"
slug: "labi-siffre"
description: "Claudius Afolabi \"Labi\" Siffre is a British singer, songwriter and poet.\nSiffre released six albums from 1970 to 1975 and four from 1988 to 1998. His compositions include \"It Must Be Love\", which reached Number 14 on the UK singles chart in 1971, \"Crying Laughing Loving Lying\", and \"(Something Inside) So Strong\" – an anti-apartheid song inspired by a television documentary in which white soldiers in South Africa were filmed shooting at black civilians in the street – which hit Number 4 on the UK chart. The latter song won Siffre the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and it has been used in Amnesty International campaigns."
tagline: "British poet, songwriter, musician, and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Robinson_and_Labi_Siffre%2C_2017_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-06-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.67
  momentum:             0.2977680433875678
  historical:           14.75511733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1294859/"
    handle:    "nm1294859"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5CzlICF8GCY0pRC82MKrhX"
    handle:    "5CzlICF8GCY0pRC82MKrhX"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.so-strong.com/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "لابى سيفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labi_Siffre"
    title: "Labi Siffre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labi_Siffre"
    title: "Labi Siffre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labi_Siffre"
    title: "Labi Siffre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labi_Siffre"
    title: "Labi Siffre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labi_Siffre"
    title: "Labi Siffre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labi_Siffre"
    title: "Labi Siffre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%91%E1%83%98_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%A4%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94"
    title: "ლაბი სიფრე"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labi_Siffre"
    title: "Labi Siffre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labi_Siffre"
    title: "Labi Siffre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labi_Siffre"
    title: "Labi Siffre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%84%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B8"
    title: "Сиффре, Лаби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Labi Siffre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6838ca8e-da88-436c-a0fd-6d3a7e832f1f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4338941"
    title: "Labi Siffre"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump