With years of experience performing in piano bars, BENAN is often playing crowd favorites and sharing with his audiences his many musical influences from Ben Folds to Freddie Mercury to Alan Menken. For two years, BENAN toured the world, performing for tens of thousands of people, as the keyboardist for country music star Jerrod Niemann. During his time in Niemann's band they opened for acts like Kenny Chesney, The Doobie Brothers, Toby Keith, Rascal Flatts and so many more and had the privilege of playing on the Grand Ole Opry Stage several times.