Emile Ford (born Emile Sweetman, 16 October 1937 in Castries, Saint Lucia, West Indies) is a musician and singer, who was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Ford was the son of a government official plus an opera singing mother, and he moved to Britain with his family at an early age. He was educated at the Paddington Technical College in London. It was during this time that Ford taught himself to play a number of musical instruments. These included the guitar, piano, violin, bass guitar and drums.

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