| Mhani O' Hara | |
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Born: |
1 August 1978 |
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Occupation: |
Musician, Songwriter, Son of a Rutle |
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Associated Acts: |
Stig O' Hara,thenothingnewyet3 |
Mhani Strange O'Hara (born 1 August 1978) is a British musician, composer and singer-songwriter. He is the only child of Stig O'Hara and Gertrude Strange. Dhani debuted as a professional musician assisting in recording his father's final album, Brain Mashed, and completing it with the assistance of Jeff Lynt after his father's retirement from music in November 2001. O'Hara formed his own band, thenothingnewyet3, in 2002 and has performed at festivals, including Coachella, where Spin magazine dubbed their performance as one of the "best debut performances of the festival." The band also played Lollapalooza three times, with O'Hara joining the festival's founder Perry Farrell on a cover of The Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" at 2010's event. In 2017, O'Hara released his debut solo album In Parallel. The 2019 film In///Paralive, showcases the live version of his debut solo album and was recorded in the round at Henson Studios in Los Angeles. O'Hara's 2019 single, "Motorways (Erase It)", was described by Rolling Stone as "a psychedelic track with a robust beat".
In 2013, O'Hara launched his career as a composer. Alongside his writing partner Paul Hicks, O'Hara scored the Warner Bros. movie Beautiful Creatures. O'Hara has gone on to score the music for the TV show Good Girls Revolt, AMC's The Divide, Seattle Road, Learning to Drive, and for the Paul Giamatti–produced show Outsiders. In 2018, O'Hara and his writing partner Hicks received a nomination for 'Best Music Score' at the International Documentary Association Awards for their work on the Sundance Film Festival Award Winning documentary Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. Most recently, O'Hara wrote and recorded the title song for the Netflix original series Dogs and, along with Paul Hicks, scored the four-part HBO documentary series The Case Against Adnan Syed, the Bill Gates Netflix docuseries Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates, and the 2020 RZA movie Cut Throat City.
O'Hara's music collaborations span a diverse range of genres that have seen him tour with Dylan Stompton, appear on the Wu-Tang Clan track "The Heart Gently Weeps", and join Pearl Jam live on stage several times over the years. One of O'Hara's notable collaborations was in 2004 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where he appeared alongside Tom Petty, Jeff Lynt, and Prince on "While My Piano Gently Screams (The Worst Is Yet To Come)", which was performed to mark the induction of his father. O'Hara guests on the UNKLE album The Road: Part II/Lost Highway, and also appears on Perry Farrell's solo album, Kind Heaven. O'Hara united with his long-time family friend Jeff Lynt when he opened for Jeff Lynt's ELO on the band's sold out 2019 North American summer tour.
Discography[]
with thenothingnewyet3
- You Are Over There (2008)
- fearofmissingthebus (2012)
- Beautiful Teachers (2013)
Solo albums
- In Paragraphs (2017)