Ben Howard
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English singer and songwriter
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- The other shore
- Entering Zen
- Absolute Moment
- Immovable Awareness
- Firewood and Ashes
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1946-01-14
germangermanypopschlagersouth africa
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,319,163
- Total plays
- 48,187,834
Tags
folkacousticsinger-songwriterbritishindie
Ben Howard (born 24 April 1987) is an English singer-songwriter, born in London. He moved to Totnes, Devon, in his teens. Howard's musically-inclined parents exposed him at a young age to their favourite records from singer-songwriter artists such as Bob Dylan, Nina Simone and John Martyn. Howard began writing his own songs and after a short spell studying journalism, he decided in 2009 at the age of 21 to become a full-time musician. After building up a reputation with his gigs across the UK
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ben
- Family name
- Howard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- singing
- Genre
- folk rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Island Records
- Official website
- www.benhowardmusic.co.uk
- Image
- Ben Howard (14885072374).jpg
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- Commons category
- Ben Howard
- supported sports team
- Liverpool F.C.
- date of birth
- 1987-04-24
- start of work period
- 2008-00-00
- social media followers
- 328825
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
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