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Radio 6 Music,3 mins

Laraaji: Why We Should All Laugh More

Mary Anne Hobbs

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Laraaji - musician and leader of his own laughter workshops - encourages us to laugh. Born Edward Larry Gordon in Philadelphia in 1943, he studied Eastern mysticism in the early seventies and bought his first zither from a local pawn shop. In 1979 he was "discovered" by Brian Eno while playing in Washington Square Park.

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