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Bennie Benjamin
Sign in to saveAlso known as Claude A. Benjamin, Benny Benjamin, Claude August "Bennie" Benjamin
United States Virgin Islands musician, songwriter (1907–1989)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Bennie's Copyrighted Songs
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,878
- Total plays
- 4,417
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Bennie Benjamin was the original drummer that coined the phrase "Funk Brothers" that described the rhythm section and backing band that played on the largest group of MoTown hits. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bennie+Benjamin">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- August
- Family name
- Benjamin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Christiansted
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Bennie Benjamin.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1907-11-04
- date of death
- 1989-05-02
- pseudonym
- Bennie Benjamin
- birth name
- Claude August Benjamin
- name in native language
- Claude A. Benjamin
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- Commons category
- Bennie Benjamin
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