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AI Summary
- Labi Siffre charts his career from late '60s debut through unflinching songwriting addressing love, identity, and justice themes across jazz-soul and tender compositions
- "Crying Laughing Loving Lying" became international success in 1972, while "Something Inside So Strong" responded to apartheid; "I Got The..." became one of hip-hop's most sampled songs
- Justin Richmond explores Siffre's 1950s London upbringing and musical discoveries that shaped his singular, category-defying artistic voice