Most people who heard the love songs of English native Laby Siffre in the ’70s had no idea that he was not singing about women. Even fewer knew she was singing about future husband Peter Lloyd, whom she had met almost a decade earlier.
The singer’s catchy style at work 1972 cry, laugh, love, lie He got some good charting songs in UK. His work was sampled mainly by rappers such as Eminem and Jay-Z in the 90s and 00s, but not in the ways that captured the ancient romance of this early work.
Sifre’s trend as a romantic was apparently long overdue. He said in an interview with The Guardian that, by the age of 11, he knew he wanted to “find someone and make them love me for the rest of my life.”
In abundant luck, he actually found two such people. After nearly 30 years into their partnership with Lloyd, the pair fell in love with Rudolf “Rudd” van Bardwijk and made their twins a bonded trio.
“I went in search of love,” said the singer. “But when I met Roode and we were three, I stopped watching altogether. For about 16 years the three of us lived together in a trois. And I realized that I had created the family I was living in.” Was trying to make up.”
Siffre’s music began to backfire in the late ’90s after Lloyd suffered a serious stroke. For the next 14 years, the singer and her second husband happily played caretakers in a house in the Welsh Mountains.
Unfortunately, Lloyd passed away in 2013, and two years later, van Bardwijk followed.
“I’ve always taken love very seriously,” Sifre repeated. “Not only what it is, but how devastating it would be to be without it.”
When asked about the pair’s departure, he only said, “It’s something that I’m still in… I don’t know what the word is.”
The singer has recently returned to music, debuting two lovely new tunes in a BBC documentary titled Labi Sifre: This is my song,
Revel in the soft domesticity cry, love Deep-cut “‘Forever”: