Dhani Harrison

Dhani Harrison d̪ʱ əni (born 1 August 1978) is a British multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and singer-songwriter who is the only child of George and Olivia Harrison. Harrison debuted as a professional musician assisting in recording his fathers final album, Brainwashed, and completing it with the assistance of Jeff Lynne after his fathers death in November 2001. Harrison went on to win Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the track, Marwa Blues, at the 2004 Grammy Awards. Harrison formed his own band, thenewno2, in 2002 and has performed at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals including Coachella where Spin Magazine dubbed their performance as one of the best debut performance of the festival. The band also played Lollapalooza three times with Harrison joining the festival’s founder Perry Farrell on a cover of Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane” at 2010’s event. In 2017 Harrison announced he would be playing his first-ever solo shows at the Panorama Festival in NYC.In 2013 Harrison was the face of GAP’s fall global campaign, entitled “Back To Blue.” In the same year Harrison launched his career as a composer, contributing to the score of the Warner Bros. movie Beautiful Creatures. Harrison has gone on to score the music for the TV show Good Girls Revolt, AMC’s The Divide, Seattle Road, Learning to Drive, and, most recently, for the Paul Giamatti-produced show Outsiders.Harrison’s music collaborations span a diverse range of genres that have seen him tour with Eric Clapton, appear on the Wu-Tang Clan track “The Heart Gently Weeps”, a reworking of The Beatles song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, and joining Pearl Jam live on stage several times over the years. One of Harrison’s notable collaborations was in 2004 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where he appeared alongside Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Prince on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, which was performed to mark the posthumous induction of his father.Harrison’s dedication to his late father’s musical legacy resulted in a week long run of shows on Conan dedicated to George Harrison, which culminated in a sold out George Fest event at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, which was later released as an album and documentary.Harrison is named after the 6th and 7th notes of the Indian music scale, dha and ni. Dhani is also a raga in north Indian classical music. His first name is usually pronounced in English as Danny.

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