Dave Benton
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Benghazi : Know Thy Enemy
- Splatterpunk Fighting Back
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1931-09-19
- Active to
- 1988-04-09
Discography
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- 527
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Dave Benton (born January 31, 1951, real name Efren Eugene Benita) is an Estonian pop musician and 2001 winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. Benton was born on the Caribbean island of Aruba in 1951 and in his 20s moved to the United States. As a drummer and a backing vocalist, he worked with The Drifters, Tom Jones, Billy Ocean, José Feliciano and the Platters. While living in the Netherlands in the 1980s, he met his future Estonian wife Maris on a cruise ship, then settled in Estonia in 199
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,439x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,081x
- Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
· 2019 · cited 6,499x
- Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease
· 2015 · cited 5,504x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,676x
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Key facts
- Born
- Efrem Eugene Benita , ( 1951-01-31 ) 31 January 1951 (age 75) , Oranjestad, Aruba
- Genres
- Pop
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- date of birth
- 1951-01-31
- start of work period
- 1970-00-00
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Efrem Eugene Benita (born 31 January 1951), also known as Dave Benton, is an Aruban-born Estonian pop musician. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 along Tanel Padar and 2XL with the song "Everybody" representing Estonia; becoming the oldest singer ever to win the contest.
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