Dhani Harrison (born 1 August 1978) is an English musician and the son of the Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison and Olivia Harrison. Harrison debuted as a professional musician when completing his father’s final album, Brainwashed, after George Harrison’s death in November 2001. Harrison formed his own band, thenewno2, in 2006. 
Harrison’s first name is pronounced similarly to the name Danny but with an aspirated ‘d’. He is named after 6th and 7th notes of the Indian music scale, ‘dha’ and ‘ni’. ‘Dhani’ is also a raga in north Indian classical music. After George Harrison’s death on 29 November 2001, Dhani Harrison, in collaboration with Jeff Lynne, completed George’s final album, Brainwashed, which was released in 2002. 
He participated in the Concert for George on the first anniversary of George’s death. The concert was organized by Eric Clapton and featured some of George’s friends and collaborators, including former Beatles bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr as well as Clapton, Billy Preston, Ravi Shankar, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Jim Keltner, and Joe Brown. Dhani Harrison played backup acoustic guitar for most of the concert. Before the finale, McCartney relayed to the audience, “Olivia said that with Dhani up on stage, it looks like George stayed young and we all got old”. In March 2006, Harrison made a guest appearance on Liam Lynch’s Podcast Video Variety Show, Lynchland. 
They performed a duet that will appear on a Lynch album. He collaborated with Jakob Dylan on the John Lennon song “Gimme Some Truth” for the Lennon tribute album “Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur”, which was released on 12 June 2007. Dhani is credited on two unreleased Traveling Wilburys tracks under the pseudonym Ayrton Wilbury, a tribute to Ayrton Senna. In April 2006, it was announced that Harrison’s band, thenewno2, had begun recording. The band released a music video, “Choose What You’re Watching”, on its website. thenewno2 features Harrison on lead guitar, synthesiser and vocals and Oli Hecks on drums and synths. He also contributed to the 2007 EP by Heather Porcaro and the Heartstring Symphony, Rooney’s 2007 CD Calling the World. He was involved in a re-working of the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” entitled “The Heart Gently Weeps”, which was the first single on the Wu-Tang Clan’s album, 8 Diagrams, released in December 2007. thenewno2’s debut album, You Are Here was released online on 11 August 2008 and in stores on 31 March 2009.The song “Yomp” was featured as a downloadable song for the Rock Band series, and “Crazy Tuesday” was featured as one of the 20 free songs that were downloadable with the purchase of Rock Band 2. On 14 April 2009, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce posthumously awarded George Harrison a star on the Walk of Fame. After Olivia Harrison gave a short speech about her late husband, Dhani Harrison uttered the “Hare Krishna” mantra. In August 2010, Dhani Harrison, Ben Harper and Joseph Arthur joined together to form Fistful of Mercy.
First name tells everything. 