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Ben Kweller (Benjamin Lev Kweller) was born on 16 June, 1981 in San Francisco, California, is an American singer-songwriter. Discover Ben Kweller's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 42 years old?

Popular As Benjamin Lev Kweller
Occupation Singer-songwriter, recording artist, record producer
Age 42 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 16 June 1981
Birthday 16 June
Birthplace San Francisco, California
Nationality United States

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1960

The duo played 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 of his.

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 and the youngster immediately began to create his own songs using the same Chords.

By the time he was nine, he had a dozen original compositions under his belt and entered a songwriting contest sponsored by Billboard magazine, where he won an honorable mention.

1981

Benjamin Lev Kweller (born June 16, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

A former member of Radish, Kweller has released six solo albums and appeared on several collaborations.

Ben Kweller was born in San Francisco in 1981.

1982

In 1982, his family relocated to Emory, Texas, where his father, Howard Kweller, became the town's first doctor.

1986

In 1986, the Kwellers moved to the larger Texas town of Greenville.

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, they would play together almost every night after Howard got home from work.

Howard sang and played guitar while Ben played the drums.

1993

In 1993, Kweller became friends with a local musician, drummer John Kent, and formed the band Radish with bassist Ryan Green.

1994

The trio played locally in and around Greenville and recorded two independent releases, Hello (1994) and Dizzy (1995), with Martin Baird at Verge Music Works recording studio in Dallas, Texas.

Around the time of the release of Dizzy, Green left Radish to focus his attention on school.

Lauren Hamilton stood in for Green for a few months until Bryan Bradford, also known as Bryan Blur, joined on for most of the band's career.

Kweller sent a copy of Dizzy to guitarist Nils Lofgren who grew up with Kweller's father in Maryland.

Lofgren was impressed with Radish and recommended them to Roger Greenawalt who was producing Lofgren's album Damaged Goods at the time.

Greenawalt took Radish to a studio to record a demo tape which was subsequently sent to record labels nationwide.

After an unexpected bidding war for Dizzy, Radish signed to Mercury Records to release the full-length Restraining Bolt.

Radish made appearances on The Weird Al Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Late Show with David Letterman, but despite a much-hyped signing, the band failed to strike success.

Radish earned a cult following in the United Kingdom with its top-40 hit "Little Pink Stars".

1997

The band went on multiple European tours, including opening slots for Faith No More and Main Stage at Reading Festival in 1997.

Radish released two singles.

1998

In 1998, Radish became a quartet; it featured Joe Butcher of the Polyphonic Spree and UFOFU on lead guitar and Debbie Williams on bass.

Radish went to Muscle Shoals Studio in Alabama to record the follow-up to Restraining Bolt, provisionally titled Discount Fireworks.

The band recorded with producer Bryce Goggin (Pavement, The Lemonheads).

While mastering Discount Fireworks in New York City, Kweller and Kent met bassist Josh Lattanzi, who would become Radish's fifth and final bass player.

As a result of PolyGram's merger with Universal Music Group, the 18-song album was never released and Radish secured a release from their contract with Mercury Records.

At age 19, Kweller moved with his girlfriend, Liz Smith, to New York, where he began his solo career.

He played solo acoustic shows and self-released four EPs, comprising some of the unreleased Radish Discount Fireworx recordings and other songs recorded in his apartment on a laptop computer.

It was one of these EPs, Freak Out, It's Ben Kweller, that caught the attention of Evan Dando of The Lemonheads.

Dando invited Kweller on tour with him.

Jeff Tweedy, Juliana Hatfield and Guster also noticed Kweller and took him on tour with them.

2001

In 2001, Ben Kweller became ATO Records' first worldwide signing and released a 5-track EP entitled EP Phone Home.

2002

In March 2002, Sha Sha, Kweller's first solo studio LP, was released.

Sha Sha included the radio-friendly and popular single "Wasted & Ready", which reached #29 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

The album featured John Kent on drums and Josh Lattanzi on bass, and showcased a wide variety of sound from quirky pop, to folk, to punk.