ALBUMSwingin': Live at the Church in TulsaTaj Mahal
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ALBUMGET ON BOARDTaj Mahal & Ry Cooder
ALBUMTajMoTaj Mahal & Keb' Mo'
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ALBUMTalkin' Christmas!The Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal
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ALBUMMaestroTaj Mahal
ALBUMEtta Baker With Taj MahalEtta Baker & Taj Mahal
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ALBUMHanapepe DreamTaj Mahal & The Hula Blues
ALBUMHanapepe DreamTaj Mahal & The Hula Blues Band
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ALBUMKulanjanTaj Mahal & Toumani Diabate
ALBUMRight Now!Gravity, Howard Johnson & Taj Mahal
ALBUMShakin' a TailfeatherTaj Mahal, Linda Tillery, The Cultural Heritage Choir & Eric Bibb
ALBUMPhantom BluesTaj Mahal
ALBUMMumtaz MahalTaj Mahal, N. Ravikiran & Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
ALBUMAn Evening of Acoustic MusicTaj Mahal
ALBUMSmilin' Island Of SongCedella Marley Booker & Taj Mahal
ALBUMShake Sugaree: Taj Mahal Sings and Plays For ChildrenTaj Mahal
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ALBUMMusic Fuh Ya' (Musica Para Tu)Taj Mahal
ALBUMBrothers (Original Soundtrack)Taj Mahal
ALBUMEvolution (The Most Recent)Taj Mahal
ALBUMSatisfied 'N Tickled TooTaj Mahal
ALBUMMusic Keeps Me TogetherTaj Mahal
ALBUMMo' RootsTaj Mahal
ALBUMOooh So Good 'N BluesTaj Mahal
ALBUMSounder (Soundtrack)Taj Mahal
ALBUMRecycling the Blues & Other Related StuffTaj Mahal
ALBUMThe Real ThingTaj Mahal
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About Taj Mahal
Artist Biography
As much as a blues musician, Taj Mahal is a broad-scale researcher of American and world music styles, obsessed with exploring the interconnectivity of their musical vocabularies. Born Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. in 1942 in New York City, the singer and multi-instrumentalist was raised in a family with refined musical tastes. His father was a jazz arranger, his mother sang gospel and his entry into musical life was classical piano. He discovered his love of folk blues while in his teens and moved to Los Angeles in 1964, developing his signature gutbucket style in the band Rising Sons alongside Ry Cooder. On his self-titled debut album (1968), Taj Mahal emerged fully formed, with a sound both situated in the canonical blues tradition and invested with a thoroughly modern, live-wire energy. A collection of playful, raucous and sometimes uncharacterisable '70s LPs—see 1974’s reggae outing Mo’ Roots—resituated Mahal’s career around genre experimentation. After a hiatus in the '80s, Taj Mahal spent the '90s both embracing pop and traversing even more far-flung stylistic territory, with projects featuring Indian, Hawaiian and West African musicians. Mahal’s 21st-century output has been more reserved, featuring collaborations with Etta Baker, Keb’ Mo’ and his old friend Ry Cooder.
Hometown
Harlem, NY, United States
Genre
Blues
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