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Taj is a towering musical figure — a legend who transcended the blues not by leaving them behind, but by revealing their magnificent scope. As he traced origins to the American South, the Caribbean, Africa, and elsewhere, he created entirely new sounds.
Taj Mahal doesn’t wait for permission. If a sound intrigues him, he sets out to make it. If origins mystify him, he moves to trace them. If rules get in his way, he unapologetically breaks them. To Taj, convention means nothing, but traditions are holy. He has pushed music and culture forward, all while looking lovingly back. He just want to be able to make the music that he's hearing come to him — and that’s what he does.
A brilliant artist with a musicologist’s mind, he has pursued and elevated the roots of beloved sounds with boundless devotion and skill. Quantifying Taj’s significance is impossible, but people try anyway.
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