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Eden Ahbez

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Birth Name: George Alexander Aberle

Born: 15 April 1908 Died: 4 March 1995

Country of origin: United States


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Description: eden ahbez was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s-1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie movement. He was known to friends simply as ahbe. Ahbez composed the song "Nature Boy," which became a #1 hit for eight weeks in 1948 for Nat "King" Cole and has since become a pop and jazz standard. Living a bucolic life from at least the 1940s, he traveled in sandals and wore shoulder-length hair and beard, and white robes. He camped out below the first L in the Hollywood Sign above Los Angeles and studied Oriental mysticism. He slept outdoors with his family and ate v ... (more)
Tags: Died 1995 (1), Born 1908 (1), Born April 15 (1)
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TV

1. We, the People (1948)
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Music

1. Eden's Island (1995)
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