Ben Kweller (born June 16, 1981, San Francisco, California) is an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Ben Kweller was born in San Francisco, CA in 1981. In 1982, his fa . .   Expand    Wikipedia

Ben Kweller (born June 16, 1981, San Francisco, California) is an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Ben Kweller was born in San Francisco, CA in 1981. In 1982, his family relocated to Emory, Texas, where his father, Howard Kweller, became the town's first doctor. In 1986, the Kwellers moved to a much larger city, Greenville, TX. Kweller was exposed to music at a very early age. Howard taught Ben how to play the drums when he was seven years old. For the next year, the father and son pair would play together almost every night after Howard got home from work. With Howard singing and playing guitar and Ben keeping the beat, the duo would play songs by The Beatles, The Hollies, Jimi Hendrix, and other artists of the 1960s. Howard is also a longtime friend of Nils Lofgren, a neighbor with whom he went to high school. . Kweller has mentioned in interviews that meeting Lofgren greatly helped his exposure to music. When Kweller turned eight, someone showed him how to play Heart and Soul on the piano. The youngster immediately began to create his own songs using the same chords. He still uses the same technique to write his songs today. By the time he was nine he had a dozen original compositions under his belt and entered a songwriting contest sponsored by Billboard Magazine. Kweller won an honorable mention.

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