Jerry Dammers (born Jeremy David Hounsell 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, The Special A.K.A. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra. 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, where he met Horace Panter.