Ben KwellerBen KwellerBen Kweller (born June 16, 1981) is an American rock musician and former lead singer of the 1990s band Radish, which was compared to Nirvana in Rolling Stone Magazine. The band grew in popularity in the Dallas, Texas music scene from its formation in 1993. However, the band was dismissed by critics as little more than an imitation of Nirvana with the novelty of an extremely young lead vocal-guitarist (Kweller was in his teens for the entire existence of the band). Nonetheless, Kweller and his two bandmates, bassist Bryan Blur and drummer John Kent, were signed to a major record label in 1995 by Mercury Records. Regardless of a much-hyped beginning, which included appearances on Conan O'Brien and David Letterman, Radish failed to strike big success with either its first record Dizzy or its sophomore effort Restraining Bolt. Solo careerKweller began his solo career with his 2002 debut Sha Sha. The title track reconciles his past career efforts with Radish and the difficulty of finding an identity as a 20 year-old artist beginning a musical career for the second time. The record kept many of the familiar sounds of Nirvana, but also worked in other pop music influences such as Weezer and Ben Folds. The album grew in popularity with a grassroot effort with his website and a promotion group called TeamBK, which promoted word-of-mouth advertising. Kweller's second solo effort, On My Way, has attempted to match the modest but well-received popularity of Sha Sha while creating a more mature and subdued sound. This page about Ben Kweller includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Ben Kweller News stories about Ben Kweller External links for Ben Kweller Videos for Ben Kweller Wikis about Ben Kweller Discussion Groups about Ben Kweller Blogs about Ben Kweller Images of Ben Kweller |
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Kweller's second solo effort, On My Way, has attempted to match the modest but well-received popularity of Sha Sha while creating a more mature and subdued sound. Johnny is very popular in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark, where he is known as Mister Eurovision. The album grew in popularity with a grassroot effort with his website and a promotion group called TeamBK, which promoted word-of-mouth advertising. It could very easily have been four wins, as an earlier collaboration with Linda Martin, "Terminal 3" - which he rather sheepishly admitted had been so named simply because he happened to be sitting in Terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport when he wrote it - had finished runner-up to the winning Swedish song "Diggi-loo, diggi-ley" in 1984. The record kept many of the familiar sounds of Nirvana, but also worked in other pop music influences such as Weezer and Ben Folds. In 1992 in Sweden he won as a composer with “Why Me” sung by Linda Martin. The title track reconciles his past career efforts with Radish and the difficulty of finding an identity as a 20 year-old artist beginning a musical career for the second time. “Hold Me Now” which Johnny wrote himself, won in 1987 in Brussels. Kweller began his solo career with his 2002 debut Sha Sha. “What's Another Year” composed by Shay Healy won in the Netherlands in 1980. Regardless of a much-hyped beginning, which included appearances on Conan O'Brien and David Letterman, Radish failed to strike big success with either its first record Dizzy or its sophomore effort Restraining Bolt. Johnny Logan won the Eurovision Song Contest three times for Ireland, so far. However, the band was dismissed by critics as little more than an imitation of Nirvana with the novelty of an extremely young lead vocal-guitarist (Kweller was in his teens for the entire existence of the band). Nonetheless, Kweller and his two bandmates, bassist Bryan Blur and drummer John Kent, were signed to a major record label in 1995 by Mercury Records. Johnson and Richard Nixon. The band grew in popularity in the Dallas, Texas music scene from its formation in 1993. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Ben Kweller (born June 16, 1981) is an American rock musician and former lead singer of the 1990s band Radish, which was compared to Nirvana in Rolling Stone Magazine. His father was a very well known Irish tenor, Patrick O'Hagan, who performed three times at The White House, for John F. Johnny Logan's real name is Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard and he was born near Melbourne, Australia on May 13, 1954. |