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Si Cranstoun

“My father has Lulu open up one of his clubs, and you had people like Rod Stewart’s manager coming down to check things out,” Cranstoun recalls. “His enthusiasm for the music back in the ‘60s, especially for music that wasn’t that popular, because my father was a promoter of Jamaican ska, which was very much an underground, alternative music for the time. But his passion was definitely passed on to me, and he left a lot of music out for me to discover – people like Jackie Wilson, Little Richard.”

Cranstoun describes his parents’ musical collection as “like an inheritance” from which his own musical education rapidly benefited. It was, however, some years after listening to that music that Cranstoun graduated to playing himself. “After a lot of listening to A-sides and B-sides, albums you hadn’t heard before, and reading about these great singers, I found myself just singing along to a lot of the stuff,” Cranstoun says. One day at school Cranstoun’s casual singing landed him a spot singing with a school band.

“I just happened to know all the songs they were singing

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SI CRANSTOUN

A good record is the cure for a bad day. You might be down on your luck, up the creek or on the skids – but it’s clinically impossible to stay depressed when Si Cranstoun’s Old School plays. In a monochrome world, this album is a spring-heeled burst of technicolor soul, scattering your worries and shaking your feet. “I felt it was time to rip it up, have some all-out retro fun and inject a high-octane dose of energy for the vintage dancefloors,” says the London-born soul man. “I recommend you listen to this album early in the morning to get yourself together – then real late at night to forget yourself!”

Si has already been dubbed “the king of vintage” by The Express and enjoyed rave endorsements from influential DJs like Terry Wogan and Chris Evans (“How good is Si Cranstoun?”). Now, released in 2016 on Ruf Records, Old School ups the ante, with Si setting the controls for the golden era and tipping his hat to formative influences like Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke and Big Joe Turner. “When it comes to taste,” he says, “it’s ’40s, ’50s, ’60s all the way.

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Si Cranstoun

English singer (born 1971)

Musical artist

Simon David Cranstoun (born October 1971)^[2] is an English singer who spent many years as a busker on the streets of London and performed in the Dualers, a ska band he formed with his brother Tyber, before becoming better known as a composer and singer of music influenced by 1950s and 1960s rock and roll and rhythm and blues.

Life

Simon Cranstoun was born in Caterham, Surrey.^{[citation needed]} His father, Bill Cranstoun, promoted Jamaican music in the 1960s. Si also loved 1950s and 1960s rock and roll and R&B music. Because he knew so many songs, he was chosen as singer for his high school band. He began to write songs at the age of 16.^{[citation needed]} Cranstoun and his brother Tyber formed the Dualers, a ska band.^{[citation needed]} Cranstoun spent twenty years as a street busker in London, and once was given 30p by Prime Minister Tony Blair.^{[citation needed]}

Cranstoun met his wife, Tamu, while singing in Croydon. They have a daughter and a son.^&#