Roy Harper

Roy Harper

singer

BIRTHDAY June 12, 1941
BIRTH SIGN Gemini
BIRTHPLACE England
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ABOUT ROY HARPER

English folk rocker who has greatly influenced his contemporaries such as Jimmy Page and younger artists such as Fleet Foxes.

He, like many British rockers, started his career as a teenaged skiffle artist. He was inspired to play music by artists like Muddy Waters .

His songwriting is greatly influenced by nineteenth century romanticism and other poetry.

His mother Muriel died shortly after his birth.

He is a friend and a great musical influence of Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin.