Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard was a renowned British pop singer and musician.
Sir Cliff Richard is a British singer who has charted records in every decade since the 1950s and is among the best-selling musical artists in United Kingdom history. With his early backing group the Shadows he played a central role in establishing British rock and roll, and he has since recorded across pop, gospel, and easy listening.
He was born Harry Rodger Webb on October 14, 1940, in Lucknow, British India, to British civil servants Rodger and Dorothy Webb. The family returned to England in 1948 and settled in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. He attended Cheshunt Secondary Modern School and worked briefly as a credit-control clerk before forming the skiffle group the Quintones and then the Drifters.
Renamed Cliff Richard in 1958, he signed with EMI's Columbia label. His debut single Move It, released that year, is widely regarded as the first authentic British rock-and-roll record. He hosted the television series Oh Boy!, starred in the films The Young Ones (1961) and Summer Holiday (1963), and represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968 and 1973.
Later hits include Devil Woman (1976), We Don't Talk Anymore (1979), and Mistletoe and Wine (1988). He was knighted in 1995, the first rock-and-roll performer to receive a British knighthood, and continues to record and tour.
His name Cliff derives from the English short form of Clifford, an Old English place-name surname meaning "ford by a cliff." Cliff has been used as an independent given name in English-speaking countries since the early twentieth century.
About the name Cliff
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Lives By The Ford Near The Cliff