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“I don’t want to imitate anyone; I just want to do me. That’s why my key aim in my career is to be as successful as I can be.” – Benny Banks Growing up in Islington (North London) Benny Banks, was your typical teenager; in that he didn’t enjoy school and would much rather do other things with his time. One of these things was listening to music. It wasn’t until age twenty however, that his love of music really began to develop. It was after a night out with his friends that Benny Banks began to rap and his...

Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman (Chicago, 30 maggio 1909 – New York, 13 giugno 1986) è stato un celebre clarinettista, compositore e direttore d’orchestra statunitense. Specialmente negli anni trenta ebbe grandi successi con la sua Big Band ed è ritenuto il piú importante protagonista dello swing. Goodman nacque da poveri immigrati ebrei. All’età di dieci anni cominciò a studiare il clarinetto da Franz Schoepp. A 12 anni suonava già nell’orchestra del teatro ed in diverse orchestre da ballo della città. Il suo modo di suonare il jazz deriva dai grandi solisti delle band degli anni 1921 tra cui il Creole Jazz...

Bennet Lester “Benny” Carter (New York, 8 agosto 1907 – Los Angeles, 12 luglio 2003) è stato un sassofonista, trombettista, arrangiatore jazz statunitense. Maestro riconosciuto del sassofono contralto, stilisticamente ha rappresentato un ponte tra lo swing e il bebop. Il suo ruolo di contraltista è rimasto predominante sin dagli esordi ― nel 1928 ― fino agli ultimi giorni di attività, negli anni 1990. Strumentista instancabile, ma anche compositore, arrangiatore, leader e anche trombettista e clarinettista di qualità, era chiamato “king” (“re”) dagli altri musicisti jazz. Il suo ruolo come artista jazz è stato ufficialmente riconosciuto in piú occasioni. Nel 1986...

Alfred Hawthorn Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor & singer, best known for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show. Since its debut in 1969 his television show has been sold to over 140 countries worldwide, with viewership in the millions. The song "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In the West)" is a bit autobiographical. Benny Hill had been a milkman in Eastleigh, Hampshire, working for Hanns Dairy whose premises was yards way from Market Street. There was a bakery near the dairy that did indeed have a...

Benny Mardones (born November 9, 1946) is an American pop singer and songwriter who is best known for his hit single "Into the Night," which hit the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart twice, in 1980 and again in 1989. The story behind "Into the Night" charting twice is this: In 1989, KZZP, a radio station in Arizona, ran a segment titled "Where Are They Now?" The most popular question was, 'Whatever happened to the guy who sang "Into The Night?"' Scott Shannon, then program director for Pirate Radio in Los Angeles, added "Into The Night" to its...