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Taj Mahal is an American male musician whose career began in 1964. He is associated with genres including acoustic blues, blues, blues rock, contemporary folk, and country blues. His musical style is also tagged as folk, acoustic, and rock.
He has authored two works, one of which is titled "Lie Like Trump." A separate record indicates a total of five works. His official website is www.tajblues.com. He has 27,200 social media followers. On Last.fm, he has 506,823 listeners and a playcount of 5,044,823. He is referenced by 931 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Lie Like Trump
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1942-05-17
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 506,823
- Total plays
- 5,044,823
Tags
Taj Mahal (born Henry Saint Clair Fredericks in New York City on May 17, 1942) is an American Grammy Award-winning blues musician who incorporates elements of world music into his music. A self-taught singer, songwriter, and film composer who plays the guitar, banjo and harmonica (among many other instruments), Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his 50 year career by fusing it with non-traditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean,
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Effect of early tranexamic acid administration on mortality, hysterectomy, and other morbidities in women with post-partum haemorrhage (WOMAN): an international, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
· 2017 · cited 1,248x
- Clinical features and management of human monkeypox: a retrospective observational study in the UK
· 2022 · cited 1,035x
- Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2025 · cited 955x
- Insights into SARS-CoV-2 genome, structure, evolution, pathogenesis and therapies: Structural genomics approach
· 2020 · cited 919x
- Green Synthesis of Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Nanoparticles Using Aqueous Fruit Extracts of <i>Myristica fragrans</i>: Their Characterizations and Biological and Environmental Applications
· 2021 · cited 877x
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Quotes
- “Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.”
- “Along with the masses of labourers flocking to Agra once news of its [Taj Mahal] inception spread, materials for the construction had also begun arriving; red sand stone from local quarries in Fatehpur Sikri and marble dug from the hills of far-off Makrana in Rajasthan. In order to transport the marble, a ten-mile long ramp of tampered earth was built through Agra on which an unending parade of thousand elephants and bullock carts continually dragged the blocks of marble to the building site.”
- “One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"...The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."”
- “The soul of Iran incarnate in the body of India.”
- “"Aye, build it on these banks," the monarch said,"That when the autumn winds have swept the sea,They may come hither with their falling rains,A voice of mighty weeping o'er her grave."”
- “Shah Jahan, who provedan emperor to be shorter than a lover,who turned a grave into a templewho gave his beloved a place of Godand converted love into a prayer.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. , ( 1942-05-17 ) May 17, 1942 (age 84) , Harlem, Manhattan , New York City, U.S.
- Spouses
- Anna de Leon Inshirah Mahal ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1976 )
- Relatives
- Carole Fredericks (sister) Aya de Leon (daughter) Deva Mahal (daughter)
- Genres
- Blues blues rock R&B reggae jazz country blues world music
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar banjo harmonica piano
- Years active
- 1964–present
- Labels
- Columbia Warner Bros. Gramavision Hannibal Ruf Private Music
- Formerly of
- The Rising Sons
- Website
- tajblues .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Educated at
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Genre
- rhythm and blues
- Instrument
- banjo
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Official website
- www.tajblues.com
- Image
- Taj Mahal (musician).jpg
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Taj Mahal (musician)
- social media followers
- 27200
- date of birth
- 1942-05-17
- different from
- Taj Mahal
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- ethnic group
- African Americans
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. (born May 17, 1942), better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments along with singing and whistling, often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taj Mahal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.