Songs By Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal Blues Songs
Songs Of Taj Mahal 1963
• • • the Hula Blues Band Website Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American musician, a self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica, among many other instruments. He often incorporates elements of into his works and has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his almost 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, and the South Pacific. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Born Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, Jr. On May 17, 1942, in, New York, Mahal grew up in. He was raised in a musical environment; his mother was a member of a local and his father was an Afro-Caribbean arranger and piano player. His family owned a which received music broadcasts from around the world, exposing him at an early age to.