Benny Sings is a prolific songwriter, multi-platinum awarded producer and artist from Amsterdam. Benny has made his name over a 2-decade career as a singer, songwriter and producer, with the the critically acclaimed latest album ‘Young Hearts' (released March 2023) on Stones Throw Records and amassed 1.5 billion streams across his catalogue so far. 

The album ’Young Hearts' includes the singles 'Pyjamas' ft Remi Wolf, The World & Young Hearts. For this project, Benny joined forces with producer Kenny Beats. The album was written & produced in Los Angeles, London & Amsterdam. 

Benny has honed a signature sound while creating a colorful catalog of essential pop gems that have led to loyal global following, with fans including John Mayer, Anderson .Paak and Jamie Cullum. Benny collaborated with a wide range of artists like Kenny Beats, Tom Misch, Mac DeMarco, Cory Henry, PJ Morton, Marc Rebillet, Emily King, Free Nationals, Mayer Hawthorne, Nulbarich, Polo & Pan, Mocky, Rae Khalil & Cornelius. He co-wrote and produced platinum awarded singles and chart topping albums for UK artist Rex Orange County including ‘Lovin Is Easy’ and ‘Who Cares’. He was nominated for an Edison Award in 2016, 2023 & 2024 and won a Buma Music In Motion Award in 2024. 

Benny Sings played live session for NPR’s Tiny Desk, KCRW & COLORS & plays sold out shows worldwide.


In 2023 Benny celebrated his 20th anniversary. 

“I’ll always be amazed by the magic of music – how something can spring into being that simply transcends everything.”

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was in 1996 that Jay-Jay Johanson, a young man from a cold climate, fascinated by the Bristol sound they called trip-hop and Portishead in particular, first tapped delicately on our eardrums.
The intoxicating album that definitively put this rare and elegant Swede on the map was called Whiskey. It was the beginning of an enthralling adventure. In only a few songs he revealed a family tree that spread its roots far and wide: on one branch Lee Hazlewood, or pop from Talk Talk or Nilsson, on the other John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, and a whole army of calm jazz or symphonic
recordings sampled from everywhere imaginable.
Almost 20 years later he has returned with an
incredible new album. This new release is called Opium and it contains the very essence of Johanson’s music: an ease with inventing melodies, a voice that gently caresses, and the jacked up, heady rhythms that lift and carry the songs. From the peaceful harmonica opening of Drowsy / Too Young To Say Good Night to the smoke-wreathed love song I Don’t Know Much About Loving, via titles with a sporadic and light groove (NDE, Alone Too Long), Opium is a courageous offering. Johanson opens his heart with
fearlessness and modesty, gracefully lowering his guard and evoking the questions that torment men of his age: love, solitude, immaturity. The songwriting is unerring, the words have a suppressed poetry. This
new Johanson is the work of a guy who has survived the avalanches, who is no longer looking for answers and is content to sketch out the perspectives in as many songs. Some titles are serious (Harakiri), but others immediately take up the reins casting a more
gentle, peaceful light, like Scarecrow, a collaboration with Robin Guthrie that would not have sounded out of place on a Cocteau Twins album, or of the strange positivity of Be Yourself or I Love Him So.
The strength of Opium is that it asks questions that don’t necessarily have an answer; it offers a collection of songs freed from any certitude but which convince
through their modesty, through their precision.
In short, Jay-Jay at his best.

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