Ben Harper

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1969

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Listeners

1,559,476

Total plays

30,948,317

Ben Harper (born in Pomona, CA, on 28 October 1969) is an American Grammy-winning singer and songwriter. As well as solo albums, he has recorded as Ben Harper and Tom Freund, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Ben Harper And The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite, and Ben & Ellen Harper. Harper grew up listening to blues, folk, soul, RnB, and reggae. Harper's blend of groove-laden funky soul and <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Harper">

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

   · 2015 · cited 73,090x

2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

   · 2012 · cited 52,734x

3. HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

   · 2015 · cited 21,469x

4. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

   · 2009 · cited 19,781x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,392x

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Quotes

• “Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.”
• “Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.”
• “My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.”
• “You see mama don't watch your damn footballAnd your beer drinkin' just won't doYou're just stayin' out lateAnd you're preachin' the hateAnd you never have been trueYou see mama she want her somebodyWho will let her be herselfSo she's leavin' youAnd your stinky damn waysCause she's found somebody else”
• “You may write me down in historyWith your bitter twisted liesYou may trod me down in the very dirtAnd still like the dust I'll rise.”
• “I believe in a few things:God the devil and love.'Cause I've looked up from the bottomAnd I've stared down from above.I have faith in a few things:Divinity and grace.But even when I'm on my kneesI know the devil prays.And you're working your wayFrom the ground on down.”

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Official website

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Listen to Ben's catalog while browsing his website, and explore the discography of music, song lyrics, tour dates with over 1,000 setlists and 15,000 photos, career-spanning photo and video galleries, latest news, merchandise and t-shirts, mailing list and more.

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.benharper.com

Image

Ben Harper FIJM 2003.jpg

Number of children

5

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