Benny Sings It has been said that since The Beatles, David Bowie, James Brown and Bob Marley, only House, Hip-hop & Punk may be considered real revolutions in new music. It has also been said that Pop Music nowadays is merely a creative rehash of the same old chords, rhythms and heartaches. Whichever way you look at it, for the pop inventors of our time, the challenge remains in mixing the original ingredients of pop to create something hip, groovy and authentic. Benny Sings meets this challenge in an ingenious and beautifully effective way. Within the traditional qualities of pop music, Benny Sings is a characteristic product of our time; it’s naturally melodic and undeniably groovy. Benny’s work method is contemporary too, as he records his music at his home studio. "I was making these hip-hopbeats and at some point just started singing to them," he says. Benny writes his own music, plays most instruments himself, and does all his vocals. Every now and then, he invites friends or family members to add some backing vocals. Together with Dox-producer Bart Sučr Benny’s songs have been refined to meet their fullest potential. "Benny Sings stands out in uncomplicatedness, and the biggest danger in producing Benny’s music is to over-produce it, so we worked very hard on adding as little as possible," says Sučr. Benny’s debut, "Champagne People" seems to communicate directly with our collective musical subconscious; each song sounds vivid and familiar. Benny was born on a sunny Sunday in 1977. He grew up in the 90’s in the working class town of Dordrecht, in the Netherlands. Benny had a "perfect youth". He comments: " I’d love to be back there again. We threw parties at our home or at friend’s places. Great parties with the music playing low and trippy drug-experiments." In high school Benny founded his first band, The Loveboat. Benny laughs: "We knew it all and the rest of the town didn’t get it." The carefree high school days drew to a close. Benny went to the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where he studied Sonology which he remembers as "something like composing anxiety attacks, in fantastic full sounds." Since 1999, Benny has been playing the bass in the hip-hop band Abstract Dialect and composing and producing with the soul band Heavenly Social, featuring Miss Dee. Additionally he is a part of the Dutchlanguage hip-hop collective, De Toffen, "just playing the groove with a couple of friends." Inspired by the work of Chet Baker, D’Angelo, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder among others, Benny provides the icing on the pop music pie and throws a party for Champagne People. It seems that the hip-hop crowd as well as the Jazzers, Soulers, and Altos of all ages feel at home at Benny’s music party. Website: http://bennysings.com CD's: Benny Sings Rednose District - EUH »»»