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Hannes is a soft-spoken 62 year old whose job is tapping the aloes that grow around his Karoo hometown of Herbertsdale, South Africa for their medicinal juice. Hannes composes his own songs and learnt to play the guitar on the side of the hill when the aloes were too dry to tap and to keep himself company on long, lonely nights in the mountains of the Kamiesberg. His right-hand finger picking style is called "optel en knyp" (which translated from Afrikaans <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Hann
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hannes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- South Africa
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- guitar
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- date of birth
- 1944-01-01
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