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ARNE BENONI - 2009
One of Norway’s most popular and traveled country music singer Arne Benoni has and continues to entertain his fans around the world. He has recorded and performed in Nashville, TN. including an appearance on the world famous Grand Ole Opry. His smooth style is reminiscent of the late Jim Reeves and Arne is held in high esteem by Reeves’ fans including Reeves’ family and band members who often travel from the United States to appear with Arne.
Arne has recorded 16 albums, most of them recorded in Nashville. His recordings have found chart success in Billboard and Cash Box and in international charts worldwide. A duet with Nashville singer Lori Brooks titled “Even If I Do” stayed on international playlists for two years in 2000 and 2001 and a duet he did with late country star Dottie West found similar success. It was West’s final recording before her untimely death in a car accident.
Arne’s far-reaching success has resulted in appearances in numerous international markets. He has appeared three times at London's prestigious Wembley Festival; two appearances as a part of the Opry Spectacular concerts at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway; and three appearances at the Norsk Høst Fest, the largest Scandinavian Festival in the world held in Minot, North Dakota.
Arne has also been a hit on cruise ships doing two European tours aboard the SS Norway and a tour of the Caribbean, which was taped and shown by Norwegian Broadcasting nationwide several times. Arne was the only country act featured on the cruise.
In addition to performing on the Grand Ole Opry, Arne has appeared with Ralph Emery on his nationally televised program Nashville Now on The Nashville Network. He has been a featured guest on the Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree several times.
Over the past years Arne has added Scotland, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark to his touring schedule. One newspaper wrote the headline that describes the love of fans for Arne -- “Arne Benoni melted a lot of hearts during his Denmark Tour.”
In 2007 Arne Benoni completed recording a new 12-song album in Nashville and released the CD that is aptly titled, “I’m Coming Home” in December 2007 on Universal Music. According to Benoni, this album will not only offer country music fans a great collection of songs, but will give them a fresh, new sound and approach to his music.
“It all starts with the song and I am proud to have written or co-written six of the songs,” Benoni states.
“What may surprise a lot of people is we have songs on this album written by Ozzy Osbourne and “Aha's” Magne Furuholmen; and if that’s not enough to get your attention I have three duets with country superstar and friend Lynn Anderson. Although it may seem like a strange brew, I hopes fan will be as excited about the album as I am and will find the recipe we put together for this project to be “tasty.”
“The music was recorded with a more contemporary country sound than people have heard from me in the past,” Benoni continues. “And the recordings were done at two of Nashville's best recording studios with some of the top session musicians in Music City.
Of course one of the most special parts of the CD are Benoni’s duets with Lynn Anderson who is best known for her international hit, “Rose Garden.” Benoni, along with millions of others, has been a big fan of Anderson’s and when a mutual friend arranged for a meeting between the two there was instant chemistry that evolved into a friendship and, as some may call it – “magic in the studio.”
Anderson and Benoni recorded versions of the big hit “Slow Hand” originally recorded by The Pointer Sisters and later by Conway Twitty; “Hello” originally recorded by Lionel Richie; and a previously unreleased song titled, “Even If It Takes Forever.”
The album release in Norway brought Lynn Anderson to that country for the first time in her career and included several media appearances in January and February of 2008, including an appearance on TV2 where she and Benoni presented the prestigious "Hit of the Year" award that was broadcast live from the Oslo Spectrum.
The two also did a successful tour in Norway last summer and set a new record at the Country Festival at Breim, playing for 13000 people.
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ARNE BENONI Presse 2009
En av Norges mest populære og bereiste countryartister, Arne Benoni, fortsetter å underholde fans verden over. Han har spilt inn plater og opptrådt i USA, inkludert den verdenskjente scenen på Grand Ole Opry i Nashville. Sangen kan til tider minne om den avdøde superstjernen Jim Reeves, og Arne er høyt verdsatt av Jim Reeves’ fans, inkludert familie og gjenlevende bandmedlemmer, som ofte reiser over til Europa for å bistå under Arnes konserter. Arne har spilt inn 16 album, de fleste i Nashville.
Hans innspillinger har hatt suksess på hitlistene i de største bransjemagasinene i USA, Billboard og Cash Box samt utallige internasjonale hitlister verden over. Duetten ”Even if I do” (med Lori Brooks), lå på internasjonale hitlister uavbrutt i to år i 2000 og 2001. Etterpå kom en relansering av en duett han gjorde med Dottie West som oppnådde lignende resultater. Det var forøvrig Wests siste plateinnspilling før hun mistet livet i en bilulykke i 1991.
Arnes vidtrekkende suksess har resultert i utallige opptredener såvel hjemme som i utenlandske markeder. Han har blant annet opptrådt tre ganger på den prestisjetunge festivalen på Wembley i London, to konserter under OL på Lillehammer i 1994 (Opry Spetacular sammen med stjerner fra USA), og har deltatt tre ganger på verdens største Skandinaviske Festival, Norsk Høstfest i Minot North Dakota, USA. Arne har også vært ”en hit” på cruiseskip, med blant annet turer i Europa, og cruise i Karibien ombord på SS ”Norway”. Det siste ble filmet av NRK og er siden vist flere ganger på NRK TV1. Arne var den eneste countryartisten som deltok på cruiset.
I tillegg til å opptre på Grand Ole Opry, har Arne vært gjest hos Ralph Emery i Nashville Now (også sett i deler av Canada og Mexico) på The Nashville Network. Han har vært ”featured guest” flere ganger på The Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree i tillegg til mange andre landsdekkende TV og radioshow ”over there”.
I løpet av de siste årene har Arne også utvidet turnéplanen til nabolandet Danmark, samt land som Skottland, Tyskland og Sveits.
I fjor var han tilbake i Norge med ny CD, derav tittelen ”I’m Coming Home”, utgitt på Universal Music. Benoni har med denne platen lagt vekt på å fornye seg vesentlig siden sist han ga ut plate her hjemme. Dette oppnår han med 6 egne låter (2 av disse i samarbeid med ex Dizzie Tunes gitarist Einar Idland), 3 duetter med Lynn Anderson, en låt av Ozzy Osbourne og en av Magne Furuholmen, på platen som er hans 16. utgivelse.
Arne traff Lynn første gang da de begge opptråtte på Wembley i London noen år tilbake. Duettene på denne platen viser med all tydelighet at de trives i hverandres selskap. I kjølvannet av flere TV og radioshow, innkludert Spellemannprisutdeling, gjorde de en suksessturné i Norge i fjor sommer, blant annet med publikumsrekord på 13000 mennesker under Countryfestivalen i Breim.
2009 inneholder mange spennende planer, og nå som før bør Arne Benoni oppleves live on stage, da opplever man med hvilken sjel og nerve han fremføre sin musikk!
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