To Sir, with love:

Derived his stage name from his grandfather's nickname "Clove King". His grandfather was a spice trader in Zanzibar.

Is of half Indian and half English descent. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born physician of Indian descent while his mother, Anna Lyna Mary Bhanji, was an English-born fashion model of Jewish-European extraction.

His paternal family was from the Indian state of Gujarat, the same state Mahatma Gandhi was from.