Jerry Dammers & Friends - Free Nelson MandelaJerry Dammers is keyboard player for Special AKA (The Specials) group from Coventy, UK. He also contributed in founding the 2 Tone record label, which helped to popularize the new sound of the ska revival in the 1980s.
He became a noted anti-apartheid campaigner, writing the song "Free Nelson Mandela" about the jailed South African ANC leader; plus organizing the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert, which was broadcast worldwide from London's Wembley Stadium, on June 11, 1988. Born Jeremy Dammers, 22 May 1955, Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India, is a founder and keyboard player of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials (changed from The Special A.K.A.).
Before his days in The Specials, Dammers had been a mod in the 1960s, then became a hippie, before becoming a skinhead. He had been a member of The Cissy Stone Soul Band, and studied art at Coventry's Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University), where he met Horace Panter. The Specials band are now reforming but without Dammers.
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