George Benson Net Worth, spouse, young children, awards, movies

Key facts:

George Benson started playing music professionally at the age of 21.

He recorded his first album with Jack McDuff at a young age.

Benson has 36 studio albums between 1964 and 2013.

His album 'Breezin'' went triple platinum, starting a string of success that saw two more platinum records and two gold records through 1983.

Benson has won close to a dozen Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year in 1977 for 'This Masquerade'

Basic Information About George Benson

Category	Celebrities › Actors
Professions	Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Guitarist
Net worth	$5,000,000
Date of birth	1943-03-22 (81 years old)
Place of birth	Pittsburgh
Nationality	United States of America
Curiosities and Trademarks	Scat vocals matching his guitar soloing note-for-note Hollow body Japanese electric guitars: Ibanez GB10, LGB300, GB30TH Pencil moustache
Gender	Male
Social Media	↗︎ Wikipedia ↗︎ IMDb

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Movie / Series	Role
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Our Guests at Heartland
Sesame Street	Self 3 episodes, 1985-1988
Saturday Night Live	Self - Musical Guest 1 episode, 1977
Good Morning Britain	Self - Guest (uncredited) unknown episodes
Loose Women	Self 2 episodes, 2010-2014
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	Self 1 episode, 1993
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	Self 1 episode, 2009
The One Show	Self 1 episode, 2009

"I'd sat down with a great blind pianist from San Francisco name Freddy Gambrel, he turned me onto some wonderful ways to get in and out of chord changes and weld harmonies together. Of course I still wanted to be like Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, and Hank Garland - my heroes. I've always liked the hot guitar guys.".

Seven top 40 hits (USA) including "This Masquerade", "Give Me the Night" and "Lady Love Me (One More Time)".
Was influenced by legendary guitar player Hank Garland..
Dedicated a 1992 show at the Florida Theatre to Hank Garland.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7055 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Friends with Freddy Cole.
He was nominated for the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Performance Arts category.
He was nominated for the 2017 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Performing Arts category.
He was nominated for the 2019-2020 Class of New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Performing Arts category.
He was nominated for the 2021 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the performing arts category.

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