Jerry Dammers (born Jeremy Dammers on 22 May, 1955, in Ootacamund, India) was the founder and keyboard player of the Coventry-based ska band, The Specials (later changed to The Special A.K.A.).

He also contributed in founding the 2 Tone record label, which helped to popularize the new ska sound 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.

While Dammers has fallen out of the spotlight in recent years, he still regularly DJs in English clubs.

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Jerry Dammers