Ben harper ian biography
- Ben Harper, raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, obsessed since childhood with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley, is actually an eclectic African-American.
- Ian Ross Harper is an Australian economist, economics professor and current dean of the Melbourne Business School.
- In 1994, Ben Harper released his first record Welcome to the Cruel World, marking his arrival as singer and songwriter of substance and ambition.
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Ian Harper
Ian Ross Harper is an Australian economist, economics professor and current dean of the Melbourne Business School.
Harper has a Bachelor of Economics with honours from the University of Queensland and a Master of Economics and Doctor of Philosophy from the Australian National University.[1] Before becoming the dean, he was Professoremeritus at the Melbourne Business School, a graduate school of the University of Melbourne.[2]
Career
Harper began his career working at the Reserve bank, after completion of his PhD.[3] He was the inaugural chairman of the Australian Fair Pay Commission before that body was abolished in 2009.[2] He then joined Deloitte's Melbourne office as a partner, and then senior adviser. He headed the Federal Government's Competition Review, releasing the final report ("the Competition Policy Review" or "Harper Review") [4][5][6][7] of 56 recommendations on 31 March 2015.[8] He was appointed to the board of the Reserve Bank in 2016 [3] b
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Ben Harper And The Innocent Criminals
Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals will return to New Zealand early next year for a five-date tour.
The renowned American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, and his band, will play TSB Bowl of Brooklands in New Plymouth on Friday, February 21; Electric Avenue Festival in Christchurch on Saturday, February 22; Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland on Thursday, February 27; Church Road in Napier on Friday, February 28 and Mount Park in Tauranga on Saturday, February 29.
Presented by Neptune Entertainment, The Rock and More fm, tickets go on sale from 8.00am on September 18 from www.neptuneentertainment.co.nz
Support acts for this tour will be announced soon.
A three-time Grammy Award winner and seven-time nominee, Harper is without question one of the most celebrated singer-songwriters of our generation.
The Californian-born artist has traversed a myriad of musical landscapes in the three decades that he’s been making music, from blues, rock and reggae; to soul, funk and folk.
He’s released 14 studio albums, including BURN TO SH
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Ben Harper, Charlie Musselwhite explore the roots of American blues in soaring fashion
The duo retraces Grammy-winning “Get Up!” in bracing show Thursday at a sold-out Meijer Gardens. The guest Local Spins review by The Crane Wives’ Ben Zito.
Burning it Down with the Blues: Ben Harper at Meijer Gardens. (Photo/Anna Sink)
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The album “Get Up!” by Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite is the latest in a seemingly never-ending series of Ben Harper reinventions.
BEN ZITO
LocalSpins.com Review
Upon setting out to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park on a particularly hot and sunny Thursday evening, I found myself wondering if I was going to hear the Harper staples of yesteryear. Would “Burn One Down” or “Steal My Kisses” be making an appearance tonight? The swampy Delta blues tones of “Get Up!” had left me with the impression that Harper had traded in his jingle-worthy pop licks for some good old-fashioned harmonica-driven 12-bar.
As the crowd filtered in, I notic
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