Benny Sings is a Dutch vocalist, songwriter, and producer whose music embraces the sunny melodic structures of pop music from the 1960s and '70s, while fusing them with arrangements and production influenced by hip-hop and electronic music.
Benny Sings was born Tim Berkestijn in 1977, and was raised in Dordrecht, a city in the western Netherlands. When Berkestijn was a teenager, he formed his first band, a high-school combo called the Loveboat. After graduating from high school, Berkestijn enrolled in the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he studied sonology. In 1999, B...