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We‘ll let his track record with Virgin Records speak for it‘s self shall we? Hear what his Bio says. Could he be the missing link between Traditional Folk & the the mainstream market, or not?


In 1999 at the Santa Barbara Bowl, Harper met Jack Johnson, who was unknown at the time and had not recorded. Harper obtained a demo tape of twelve of Johnson‘s


songs that


Europe and was widely played in Australia (first on Triple J radio). Harper has made comments on a number of occasions that his


career was kicked he


forwarded to his producer, J.P. Plunier, with whom Johnson recorded his first album.Harper playing the


weissenborn at


Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario. Early in Harper‘s career,


his music received more attention in off figure in


Australia. While he was a well- known and respected


France, in


the United States, he was a star in countries like Australia, New Zealand,


Portugal,


Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, receiving a great deal of airplay and critical acclaim.


His popularity in Europe is such that he was French Rolling Stone magazine‘s Artist of the Year (Artiste De L‘Année) in 2003, and his Australian tour that year for Diamonds on the Inside was highly successful. In 2002, Harper was one of the featured singers covering Motown hits by Marvin Gaye in the documentary, Standing in the Shadows of Motown (a history of The Funk Brothers).


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