Ben Harper
Ben Harper
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harperis an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has released twelve regular studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records and has toured internationally. Harper is a three-time Grammy Award winner as well, winning awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, in 2005. He also won a Grammy for Best...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBlues Singer
Date of Birth28 October 1969
CityPomona, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you're alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.
Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive.
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.
Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend...
These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
Folk is bare bones music.
I refuse to make uninspired music.
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!
I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones.