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aka: Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr.
Based in: the U.S.
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GRAMMY award-winning Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. (born May 17, 1942), better known by his stage name, Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments, often incorporating elements of world music into his work.
Taj Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.
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He has worked with the Rolling Stones, with whom he has performed at various times throughout his career. In 1968, he performed in the film, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.
In 1998, in collaboration with renowned songwriter David Forman, producer Rick Chertoff, and musicians Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nile, Joan Osborne, Rob Hyman, Garth Hudson, and Levon Helm of the Band, and the Chieftains, he performed on the Americana album, Largo, based on the music of Antonín Dvořák.
Mahal leads with his thumb and middle finger when fingerpicking, rather than with his index finger, as the majority of guitar players do. “I play with a flatpick,” he says, “when I do a lot of blues leads.”
In 2014, Taj Mahal received the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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