Lee Oskar Playing Harmonica Celebrating his 25th Anniversary in 2008 at the NAMM Show in Anaheim

What a great guy Lee is! READ MORE BELOW Congratulations on your 25th Anniversary of making the best harps out there! Lee Oskar is a Danish harmonica player,notable for his contributions to the sound of the rock-funk fusion group War, which he formed with Eric Burdon, his solo work, and as a harmonica manufacturer. He currently plays with Lowriderband, with Harold Brown, Howard Scott and B.B.Dickerson. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1948, Oskar was six years old when a family friend gave him his first harmonica."I came from an area where every kid on the block had a harmonica," he remembers. He grew up listening to Danish radio, enjoying all types of music and cites Ray Charles as the biggest influence from that period. When he was 17, Oskar decided that the United States was where a harmonica player should make his career, so he moved to New York at the age of 18 with little more than a harmonica in his pocket. With no money, Oskar played harmonica in the streets of New York. Eventually arriving in Los Angeles, California, via Toronto and San Francisco, Oskar soon met and joined forces with Eric Burdon who had recently disbanded The Animals and was searching for new collaborators. Together, the harp-playing Dane (born Oskar Levetin Hansen and the British blues-rock singer made the rounds of the L.A. clubs, eventually hooking up with the soon-to-be members of War. Burdon agreed to the novel idea of pairing up Oskar&harmonica with Charles Miller&saxophone to form a horn...