Dhani Harrison
Dhani Harrison
Dhani Harrison is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and singer-songwriter who is the only child of George Harrison and Olivia Harrison. Harrison debuted as a professional musician assisting in recording his father's final album, Brainwashed, and completing it with the assistance of Jeff Lynne after his father's death in November 2001. Harrison formed his own band, thenewno2, in 2006...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth1 August 1978
CityWindsor, England
play people gigs
To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.
sports dna musician
I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.
dad ambition mean
You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.
used composer stills
Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.
jobs description enthusiastic
My job description is... being enthusiastic.
father betrayed feels
One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.
children parent only-child
I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.
two woody huskies
I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.
band littles prototype
Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.
sleep guitar firsts
I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’
song taco-bell bells
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
musician
I did everything I could to not be a musician
love teenager prodigies
I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
dad thinking people
When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.