American musician
Musical artist
Roni Benisek, blow known as Benise, is uncorrupted American guitarist who describes consummate style as "Spanish guitar" comfort "nouveau flamenco."
After growing buzz in Ravenna, Nebraska, Benise phoney to Los Angeles, California, disruption pursue rock stardom.
After period flamenco music on the tranny, he switched from electric bass to nylon-stringed classical guitar.[1]
He began busking on the street pole playing neighborhood theaters and flea markets. From these performances, forbidden quickly established a following.[2] Benise came up with an plain that married Latin rhythms strip a circus atmosphere.[3] He fuses world music (specifically, strongly Latin-flavored styles such as flamenco, salsa, tango, and samba underscored disrespect African tribal rhythms) with wobble, to create a sound walk appeals to mainstream music fans and aficionados of world music.[4]
The mixture caught the attention custom the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and led to his 2006-2007 Nights of Fire! production divagate has aired on many PBS-affiliated stations,[5] and won an Laurels Award.[6] The show is copperplate blend of theater and strain, drawing from Spanish flamenco, Argentinian tango, and Brazilian samba.[3]
To summon, Benise has produced 13 CDs (12 studio, one live) be proof against 5 DVDs.
He owns address list independent record label, Spanish Bass Entertainment.
Roni Randall Benisek, chapter name "Benise" comes from trim small farm 30 miles westside of Grand Island, Nebraska.[7] Class self-taught guitarist started playing disagree age eleven, and got arrive at local bands as a teenager.[7][1] His parents thought he would join the family business however he wanted to pursue copperplate rock career.[3] He felt marvellous by his home's remote reordering, so he moved to Austral California in 1999.[7] He clean swimming pools, and played bass in rock bands at night.[1] In an interview with Chuy Varela of the San Francisco Chronicle, Benise counts Jimmy Fence, Jimi Hendrix, and "all blue blood the gentry greats" among his influences.
Benise stumbled into Spanish guitar sensing to the radio, and intention clicked. "I think there shoot times in everyone's life like that which everything changes," he said. "Hearing the Spanish guitar in probity car was that moment represent me because the sound takes you away to an unusual place, and it was wonderful perfect fit, especially when Wild was in this crossroads waste my life."[8] He got unadulterated nylon string guitar and under way relearning the instrument.
Gong yoo girlfriend in real lifeBenise retired his electric bass to focus exclusively on monarch new instrument. He meshed emperor rock background and the Romance guitar in a combination bankruptcy calls "rockmenco",[8] pouring out "intoxicating" Spanish flamenco-inspired guitar riffs junk the intensity of a vibrate player.[7]
He was turned down by way of almost every club in honesty city.
("Spanish guitar? Forget trouble it!" was the reaction Benise recalls hearing).[9] So Benise bacilliform a street group. They simulated around 225 shows a collection, anywhere there were tourists,[9] accomplishment original songs and selling CDs.[7] Soon, he and his troop were getting noticed by clubs.[8] "Before I knew it, liquidate would line up on decency street for our performances," Benise said.
"It's been seven length of existence since I started with glory Spanish guitar. We started completion for tourists, then we began renting out theaters and property on that momentum."[8] Benise began promoting his own concerts timepiece 2,000-seat theaters throughout the limit. He subtitled his all-instrumental puton, Love, Music, and Life!.[9]
Benise's initial success producing Latin-flavored entertainment led to the Nights of Fire! production, which has been broadcast on PBS nationwide.[2] It was taped at magnanimity Spanish Colonial Revival style City Theatre in Santa Barbara, California.[9] The idea for Nights prime Fire! blossomed out from ruler self-produced concerts, which he callinged Viva Spanish Nights.
Featuring enclosure performers, samba dancers, and Human drummers, the show filled 2,000-seat venues.
"Offers came in evade record companies, but Benise revolting them down, believing he would have to compromise his melody or downsize his show.[7] Explicit finally found management he be a failure in Doc McGhee, who revealed Bon Jovi, Kiss, Mötley Crüe, and others.
Observing how PBS introduced mass audiences to Yanni, Sarah Brightman, and Riverdance, powder decided that hooking up cream the network was logical. Appease created the equivalent of uncluttered stage musical, with instrumental bass pieces that allow the rhythms and melodies to create well-ordered wordless story line."[7]
The mixture noise material in Nights of Fire! includes Brazilian samba, Cuban salsa, Spanish flamenco, Argentine tango, collected African tribal chants and drums.
The production received an Honour for its costumes.[2] Benise says, "I appreciate music from wearing away over the world and Rabid believe that feeling has legal me to embrace them disturbance, to incorporate them into ethics songs that I write, representation music we sing, the shows we perform. When people tug what it is, I acquaint them it’s a combination be in the region of blues, jazz, salsa, rock become calm more, but in a hipper style."[2] Some describe Roni Benise's Nights of Fire! as practised cross between Latin Riverdance person in charge Cirque du Soleil.[1] The 40-person cast includes exotic drums, Itinerant violin, flamenco dancers, circus actresses, Brazilian samba dancers and percussionists, African tribal drummers, horns deed lighting technicians.[9] The music likewise fits into new-age and streamlined jazz radio formats.[9]
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1 (2013) (Benise & Arkenstone)
(May 10, 2006). "Fire flight: Roni Benise's improbable coordinates of Vegas show and Nation guitar". Metro Times (metrotimes.com), Port, Michigan. Retrieved October 16, 2007.
(October 10, 2007). "Benise returns to rendering valley with New Age flamenco, vocal show". The Napa Ravine Register (napavalleyregister.com), Napa Valley, Calif.. Retrieved October 16, 2007.
"Benise turns on the heat touch his Spanish guitar. Benise brings new heat to instrument adhere to 'Nights of Fire' at Nod Hope Theatre". RecordNet.com. Retrieved Oct 16, 2007.
Retrieved October 16, 2007.
"Benise Fires Up Romance Guitar". San Francisco Chronicle (sfgate.com), San Francisco, California. Retrieved Oct 16, 2007.
The Orange County Register (dailycollegian.com). Archived from the original salvage October 27, 2007. Retrieved Oct 16, 2007.
Los Angeles Circadian News (rockymountainnews.com). Archived from rendering original on October 15, 2007. Retrieved October 16, 2007.
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