Jerry Harrison

Jerry Harrison

Jeremiah Griffin Harrison (born February 21, 1949) is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. He began his professional music career as a member of the band the Modern Lovers, before becoming keyboardist and guitarist for the new wave group Talking Heads. In 2002, Harrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Talking Heads.Following David Byrne's announcement of Talking Heads' disbanding in 1991, Harrison has focused more on producing other bands, a role he started while still with Talking Heads, first producing the album Milwaukee with Elliott Murphy, and then later working with Violent Femmes on their third album, The Blind Leading the Naked, in 1986.During the 1990s, he produced a number of hit albums for bands such as Live, The Verve Pipe, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd among others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerry Harrison has received more than 1,295,208 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Jerry Harrison is the 2,319th most popular musician (down from 2,206th in 2019), the 12,354th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,638th in 2019) and the 974th most popular American Musician.