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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

Ben Harper

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Ben Harper
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 28
Guitarist
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Pomona
California
Benjamin Chase Harper
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