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Browse piano sheets by Benson Boone on Zen Virtual Piano. In high school in Monroe, Washington, Benson Boone’s friend asked him to play piano in the school’s battle of the bands. He had grown up playing a little and loved listening to a wide range of artists, among them Elvis, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel and Adele, but Deseret News says he did not really understand the scope of his musical abilities until he filled in as the singer at the last minute after the original singer quit. Perhaps a piano seat that turned into a microphone is the stand-in moment around which that early account turns, with the scope of his abilities coming into view only then. In 2021 an eighteen-year-old Boone decided to try his luck on American Idol; Katy Perry declared him a potential winner, according to Deseret News, but he ended up forgoing the competition and dropped out of BYU-Idaho to pursue music on his own terms. GRAMMY.com adds that he first made waves on social media and on Season 19 of American Idol, where the judge Lionel Richie pointed out his natural talent. GRAMMY.com also reports that Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds came upon the young talent and signed him himself, in 2021, to Night Street Records, his own label in partnership with Warner Records. Leaving a talent-show contest and a college place to pursue music can be read as two exits that pointed the same way, with the signing by a fellow musician arriving in the same year. Boone released his debut single, Ghost Town, in the fall of 2021, and two EPs followed before his debut album, Fireworks & Rollerblades, which features the international No. 1 hit Beautiful Things. Variety describes the album, released in April, as an anthemic collection of soaring pop tunes about the trials and tribulations of the heart, with his powerful tenor bringing emotion to tracks like Slow It Down and Forever and a Day. GRAMMY.com notes that he went from viral TikTok influencer to one of Gen Z’s most promising pop talents, and describes his writing as raw lyrics strung together with memorable hooks and thrashing piano riffs. Piano riffs among the elements of the writing bring the story back to the piano at that school battle of the bands, and suggest a thread running through his work.
Browse piano sheets by Benson Boone on Zen Virtual Piano.
In high school in Monroe, Washington, Benson Boone’s friend asked him to play piano in the school’s battle of the bands. He had grown up playing a little and loved listening to a wide range of artists, among them Elvis, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel and Adele, but Deseret News says he did not really understand the scope of his musical abilities until he filled in as the singer at the last minute after the original singer quit. Perhaps a piano seat that turned into a microphone is the stand-in moment around which that early account turns, with the scope of his abilities coming into view only then.
In 2021 an eighteen-year-old Boone decided to try his luck on American Idol; Katy Perry declared him a potential winner, according to Deseret News, but he ended up forgoing the competition and dropped out of BYU-Idaho to pursue music on his own terms. GRAMMY.com adds that he first made waves on social media and on Season 19 of American Idol, where the judge Lionel Richie pointed out his natural talent. GRAMMY.com also reports that Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds came upon the young talent and signed him himself, in 2021, to Night Street Records, his own label in partnership with Warner Records. Leaving a talent-show contest and a college place to pursue music can be read as two exits that pointed the same way, with the signing by a fellow musician arriving in the same year.
Boone released his debut single, Ghost Town, in the fall of 2021, and two EPs followed before his debut album, Fireworks & Rollerblades, which features the international No. 1 hit Beautiful Things. Variety describes the album, released in April, as an anthemic collection of soaring pop tunes about the trials and tribulations of the heart, with his powerful tenor bringing emotion to tracks like Slow It Down and Forever and a Day. GRAMMY.com notes that he went from viral TikTok influencer to one of Gen Z’s most promising pop talents, and describes his writing as raw lyrics strung together with memorable hooks and thrashing piano riffs. Piano riffs among the elements of the writing bring the story back to the piano at that school battle of the bands, and suggest a thread running through his work.
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Benson Boone is a Monroe, Washington native.
In high school in Monroe, he was asked to play piano in the school’s battle of the bands and filled in as the singer at the last minute after the original singer quit.
His debut album is Fireworks & Rollerblades, which features the international No. 1 hit Beautiful Things and was released in April.
In 2021 Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons personally signed him to Night Street Records, in partnership with Warner Records.