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Benny Sings is a Dutch pop artist. Since 2003, he has released seven studio albums with Champagne People and his latest Beat Tape being released this year. Benny cites US musician Michael Franks as a major influence on his music (Franks is seen as a pioneer of the quiet-storm music genre, a style of contemporary R&B, jazz fusion, and pop music that began in the mid-70s).
As well as his own music, Benny has been playing bass in the hip-hop band Abstract Dialect and composing and producing with the soul band Heavenly Social. He is also a part of the Dutch-language hip-hop collective De Toffen.
Benny Sings’ popularity globally has been steadily growing, and in a 2015 article The Huffington Post named him “the best singer you don’t know.” In 2017, he won the Zabut 2017 Award for Best Original Soundtrack for the music he did on the animated film Zeezucht.