05/05/2026
Daniel Benisty live Wednesday 6th October at 8pm. Singer Pianist and Bandleader
Daniel Benisty is a crossover artist, singer, songwriter, jazz pianist, musical director, spoken word poet and educator. As a pianist-singer entertainer, he has performed at The Ritz, The Ivy, The Savoy, The Dorchester, The Wellsley, The Hilton, Home House, Troubador, Ronnie Scotts and many other prime London music venues, both solo as a pianist/singer and with his band – The London Swing and Soul Band www.thelondonswingband.co.uk – As a soloist with occasional guest singers, musicians and cabaret artists, he currently 2 nights a week at Cellar Door, Aldwych – https://cellardoor.london/shows
Originally from London, Daniel started his musical journey in his 20s whilst living and working in Switzerland. Developing as a Jazz Pianist and Blues singer (separately), Daniel studied jazz at EJMA and toured as a singer with a number of Swiss bands who performed regularly at Blues, Jazz and Rock festivals in France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Alongside a passion for Jazz and Blues, Daniel’s operatic and musical theatre styles have seen him perform on a variety of stages across the UK and Europe where he has performed as Elvis (London, Geneva, Switzerland), Freddie Mercury (Frankfurt, Germany) and as a lead Italian tenor opera singer in a London production of “Lend me a Tenor”.
Daniel’s songwriting journey started when encountering Muriel Dubuis, head of Jazz vocals at EJMA Lausanne. Together they wrote an album of 12 songs which saw radio play in over 20 countries. As a consequence of lockdown, Daniel became inspired to finish and produce a decade’s worth of unfinished material, including songs in Spanish, German, French and his mother-tongue English.