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Right from day one, Ben Harper has been surrounded by music. His parents listened to wide ranges of music, his father was a percussionist, his mother a guitarist and singer. Ben's grandparents still run the Folk Music Center near Los Angeles where Ben grew up among the most varied collection of instruments. It is here that Ben was introduced to his now signature instument: a 1920's Hawaiian lap slide guitar named as it's creator - Weissenborn. The guitar features a fretless, thick hollow neck, which must be seen to be believed, but produces unheard of tone and sustain.
Ben's musical career took of when he was noticed playing along side mentor Taj Mahal. His debut album "Welcome to the Cruel World" was released in 1994, a mix of acoustic and folk sounds with social outcries in such songs as "Don't Take That Attitude to Your Grave" and "Like A King", a song about the irony of Martin Luther King's dream, and racism victim Rodney King's worst nightmare...