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Ben Harper

From Afro-American and Cherokee Indian descent, Ben Harper first started playing guitar as a child and in his teens specialised in the slide guitar style of one of his primary heroes, blues legend Robert Johnson. He played his first gig at the age of 12 and, playing a Weissenborn lap steel guitar, went on the road with Taj Mahal in his teens, linking up with Tom Freund to record 'Pleasure & Pain' in 1992. His edgy songs and virtuoso playing won a lot of fans on his debut solo album 'Welcome to the Cruel World' (1994) and he became a popular fixture on the college circuit. Seco...