Benny Ray Hester is an American musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist. He is perhaps best known for his songs When God Ran and Nobody Knows Me Like You, and for producing the groundbreaking tweenteen musicdriven sketch comedy and dance television series Roundhouse on Nickelodeon. Hester received a television Cable Ace Award for the song I Can Dream and a collection of nominations for writing and producing a featured original song for each weekly episode of Roundhouse during its successful fouryear run. He has written and recorded more thannumber one and top ten songs.
Benny Hester was born in Waco, Texas, and began studying classical music at age four. He continued his studies through high school with European teachers and musical innovators John and Martha Reuther. Hester was among the first to master John Reuthers futuristic chromatic checkerboard designed keyboard and one of a handful of musicians to become expert on the instrument, playing public performances to demonstrate its attributes over the standard keyboard.
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