Ben Harper

Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has released twelve regular studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records and has toured internationally. Harper is a three-time Grammy Award winner as well, winning awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, in 2005. He also won a Grammy for Best Blues Album in 2014.

Early life

Harper was born in Pomona, California. His father, Leonard, was of African-American and possibly Cherokee ancestry, and his mother, Ellen Chase-Verdries, is Jewish. His maternal great-grandmother was a Russian-Lithuanian Jew. His parents divorced when he was five years old, and he grew up with his mother's family. Harper has two brothers, Joel and Peter.

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List of My Family characters

This is a list of characters for the British sitcom My Family that has aired on BBC One since 17 September 2000. Lucy Chestifield played by Hollie Dodds is in the 9th series till the end. My Family centres on the fictional Harper family, who live in Chiswick, west London. The family is led by parents Ben and Susan, played by Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker. They have three children, Nick (Kris Marshall), Janey (Daniela Denby-Ashe) and Michael (Gabriel Thomson). Nick is a regular character until the 2003 Christmas special, and makes one appearance in 2004's fifth series before making his final My Family appearance in the 2005 Comic Relief short as Marshall wanted to do other projects and avoid being type-cast. Janey is a regular until the 2002 Christmas special and does not appear in Series Four (2003), while the character is at University. Janey returns as a main character in Series Five.

Abi Harper, played by Siobhan Hayes, first appears in Series Three as the daughter of Ben's cousin Richard (Anthony Head). Series Three also sees the first appearance of Roger Bailey, Jnr, played by Keiron Self. Roger, who becomes a main character in the fourth series, is a dentist and the son of Ben's former mentor. In the 2005 Christmas special Alfie Butts (Rhodri Meilir), a friend of Nick's, moves into the Harper household.

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Ben Harper (Yellowcard and This Legend)

Not to be confused with Ben Harper

Benjamin Eric Harper is an American rock musician. He is best known for being the former lead guitarist for the American pop punk band Yellowcard, as well as for the bands Amber Pacific and HeyMike!. Harper is co-owner of Takeover Records.

Music career

Yellowcard (1997–2006)

Harper formed Yellowcard in 1997 along with Longineu W. Parsons III, Ben Dobson, Todd Clary, Warren Cooke, and Sean Mackin after meeting at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. The band released their first album, Midget Tossing, in 1997. They then released their second album, Where We Stand in 1999. After Dobson left the band Harper asked friend Ryan Key to be the band's new lead singer. The band then released the Still Standing EP in early 2000. Shortly after the release of their EP Todd Clary left the band, Key then filled in as the rhythm guitarist. The band then moved to Camarillo, CA, after being signed to Lobster Records. They then begin working on their next album.

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Baby Blues

Baby Blues is an American comic strip created and produced by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott since January 7, 1990. Distributed by King Features Syndicate since 1995, the strip focuses on the MacPherson family and specifically on the raising of the three MacPherson children.

When the strip debuted, the MacPherson family consisted of Wanda and Darryl MacPherson and newborn Zoe. The first strip took place in the hospital room shortly after Zoe was born. Later, two more children—Hammie, the middle child and the only son, and Wren, the youngest child—were added to the family. Both Kirkman and Scott have drawn from their own parenting experiences as a source for the strip's content.

Characters and story

The strip features three families, according to the strip's "Family Tree" page.

Main family (MacPhersons)

  • Darryl MacPherson: The father. A manager by profession, he is sometimes unaware of his wife's exhausted state. In various strips, Zoe, Wren and Hammie wait to meet him right when he gets home from work. In some strips, he appears to dislike "The Whistling Monkey Cowboy Band". One example is while Wren is obsessed with the merchandise, Wanda states that Bill Murray and Robin Williams have recently finished working on a "Whistling Monkey Cowboy Band" movie whereupon Darryl retreats to the roof. He also tends to swear when accidentally injuring himself or frustrated. He also tends to make mistakes, such as in Wren's ultrasound, he mistakes her for a boy. He has a big nose which he got from his dad and orange hair which he got from his mom. He is possibly an only child because they never said anything in the comic that he has siblings.
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    Baby Blues (U.S. TV series)

    Baby Blues is an animated television series, based on the Baby Blues comic strip by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott, produced by Warner Bros.. The first eight episodes of Baby Blues originally aired in the United States on The WB Television Network from July 28, 2000 until August 24, 2000, before the series cancellation. Five then-unaired episodes were later aired on Adult Swim in 2002. A season consisting of thirteen episodes was produced but never aired.

    The animated adaptation of Baby Blues differs from the comic by having it take place when Zoe was still an infant, even though she was the older sister to Hammie in the strip at the time. In addition, it focuses on Darryl and Wanda's relationship with supporting characters created for this series, including the Bittermans (a dysfunctional next-door family with three children), Bizzy (Zoe's babysitter), and Kenny (Darryl's laid-back close friend and co-worker).

    Production

    Warner Bros. Animation has produced eight of the 13 aired episodes, with overseas animation done by Varga Studio in Hungary for five of them (including the pilot), and Sunwoo Entertainment in Korea for the three others. Rough Draft Studios in Los Angeles did five episodes, which include "Bizzy Moves In", "Rodney Has Two Daddies", "Hurtin' Inside", "Ugly Zoe", and "Wanda Moves Up".

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    Baby Blues (2012 film)

    Baby Blues is a 2012 Polish drama film directed by Katarzyna Rosłaniec. The story is moving the problem of teenage mothers, which think that the baby is just an addition to clothes and hairstyle.

    Plot

    Natalie is a seventeen-year-old teenager living in Warsaw. She has a child with Jackob, but neither of the parents can take care of the baby.

    Cast

  • Magdalena Berus as Natalie
  • Nikodem Rozbicki as Jackob

    • References

    External links

  • Baby Blues at the Internet Movie Database
  • Baby Blues at culture.pl
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    Ben Harper (disambiguation)

    Ben Harper (born 1969) is an American musician.

    Ben Harper may also refer to:

  • Ben Harper (Yellowcard and HeyMike!) (born 1980), punk rock lead guitarist of HeyMike! and previously of Yellowcard
  • Ben Harper (politician) (1817–1887), mayor of Rock Island, Illinois, 1854–1855
  • Ben Harper (My Family), character in the British sitcom My Family
  • Ben "Beanie" Harper, a character in the U.S. soap opera Love of Life
  • Ben Harper, a character in the 1955 film The Night of the Hunter
  • Benjamin Harper, oldest son of current Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
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    Podcasts:

    Ben Harper

    ALBUMS

    2009-09-28: E Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Released 2009

    2009-10-04: Austin City Limits Music Festival, Zilker Park, Austin, TX, USA

    Released 2009

    2009-09-26: Clark County Amphitheater, Portland, OR, USA

    Released 2009

    2009-10-07: Gibson Amphitheater, Universal City, CA, USA

    2009-09-30: Gibson Amphitheater, Universal City, CA, USA

    2009-10-01: Gibson Amphitheater, Universal City, CA, USA

    2009-10-06: Gibson Amphitheater, Universal City, CA, USA

    2009-09-25: GM Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    2004-10-24: Bridge School Benefit 18, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA

    1995-11-04: Spartan Stadium, San Jose, CA, USA

    Ben Harper

    ALBUMS

    Childhood Home

    Released 2014

    Get Up!

    Released 2013

    By My Side

    Released 2012

    Give Till It's Gone

    Released 2011

    Live From the Montreal International Jazz Festival

    Released 2010

    White Lies for Dark Times

    Released 2009

    Live at the Apollo

    Released 2005

    There Will Be a Light

    Released 2004

    Diamonds on the Inside

    Released 2003

    One Hour (acoustic live)

    Released 2001

    3

    Released 2000

    Live aux Vieilles Charrues

    Released 1999

    Live

    Released 1998

    The Will to Live

    Released 1997

    Fight for Your Mind

    Released 1995

    Welcome to the Cruel World

    Released 1994

    Pleasure and Pain

    Released 1992

    The Best So Far

    2006-06-30: Olympia, Paris, France

    2003-06-20: Newbury Comics, Alewife Store, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Concert Très Privé RTL

    Unplugged

    Both Sides of the Gun

    The Acoustic Show Case

    Montréal Jazz Festival

    Sittin and Playin

    2003-06-19: FleetBoston Pavilion, Boston, MA, USA

    Church House Blues

    2002-06-22: Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester, TN, USA

    Ben Harper

    ALBUMS

    50's Rockers, Volume 1

    Released 1994
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    Fly One Time

    by: Ben Harper

    Inevitability
    Is pounding at my door
    Screaming for more
    In a world that owes you nothing
    You give everything
    Everything
    Now I'm caught in between
    What I can't leave behind
    And what I may never find
    So fly one time
    Fly one time
    Standing
    At the edge of your life
    At the edge of our lives
    Don't hold on, there's no fighting back the years
    It's so hard to unlearn fears
    Now that you're caught between
    What you can't leave behind
    And all that you may never find
    So fly, just fly
    Just fly one time
    I see you so clearly, so clearly up so high
    I see you up so clearly, up so clearly high
    Now you're caught in between
    What you can't leave behind
    And what we may never find
    So fly, so fly one time
    So clearly, so clearly
    So high, fly one time
    Just fly one time




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