Rolf Harris CBE, AM (born 30 March 1930), is an Australian musician, composer, painter, and television host.

Named after Rolf Boldrewood, an Australian writer his mother admired, he was born in Bassendean, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, Australia, to Cromwell ("Crom") Harris and Agnes Margaret Harris (née Robbins) who had emigrated from Wales. He is the nephew of Australian artist Pixie O'Harris, (1903-1991); i.e., Rhona Olive Pratt, née Harris.

Harris attended Perth Modern School in Subiaco, and the University of Western Australia.

As an adolescent and young adult Harris was a champion swimmer being the Australian Junior 110 yards Backstroke Champion in 1946 and Western Australian state champion over a variety of distances and strokes during the period 1948-1952.

He met his wife, the Welsh sculptress and jeweller Alwen Hughes, while they were both art students, and they married on 1 March, 1958. They have one daughter, Bindi Harris (born 10 March, 1964), who studied art at Bristol Polytechnic and is now a painter.

Star Portraits with Rolf Harris was a BBC television series that has so far had three series. A third series started airing in March 2007. In it, 3 artists each paint a picture of a celebrity, and then the celebrity gets to choose to keep one of them. Rolf Harris, famous for his programme Rolf on Art, presents it.

Helen Humes (June 23, 1913 - September 9, 1981) was an American jazz and blues singer. Helen was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She moved to New York and became a recording vocalist with Harry James big band in 1937. Her swing recordings with Harry James included “Jubilee”, “I Can Dream Can’t I”, “That’s The Dreamer In Me” and “Song Of The Wanderer”. Helen Humes became one of the vocalists with Count Basie’s band in the late 1930s. Her vocals with Basie’s band included “