Stefan Benz is a singer-songwriter from South Africa. He first got famous as a cover artist, but now he makes his own music. He started his career by posting piano covers of his favorite songs by artists like Richard Marx, Charlie Puth, and Ed Sheeran on Instagram and YouTube. Then he started putting his own songs on YouTube, like “Get Over You,” “Cool 4 Me,” and “Say What’s in Your Eyes.” Stefan moved to the U.S. to further his music career after becoming very famous in South Africa. His YouTube channel has more than 5 million views, and he is always at big events like the VMAs and the Grammy Awards.
Early Years
Stephan Benz was born in South Africa on September 26, 2006. People don’t know much about him or his family, except that he has a younger sister.
His rise to fame as a singer and social media star: Stefan Benz was only 11 years old when he took part in the 2018 World Championships of Performing Arts in Long Beach. Manny Mijares, who is well-known for making music, was one of the judges.
Manny took a video of Stefan’s performance in the semi-final round of the contest and sent it to Charlie Walk, the former president of the label Republic Records.
Stefan hasn’t looked back since then when it comes to writing songs, making records, or performing. He is already a big star in South Africa, and he has performed all over the world.
Stefan had already been covering songs by his favourite artists on the piano and posting them on Instagram since 2017. He has done covers of songs by Charlie Puth, Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Justin Bieber, Queen (Bohemian Rhapsody), and Wham! (Last Christmas). He worked with JC Chasez on a cover of “This I Promise You” by NSYNC.
Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx was the song he covered on YouTube that got the most views. When Stefan posted the cover on his YouTube channel on October 23, 2018, it got 1.6 million views and 43,000 likes.
His cover of Justin Bieber and J Balvin’s “La Bomba” (Stefan Benz x Gavin Magnus Cover), which was posted on his channel on July 31, 2020, has gotten 464 thousand views.
He has also put out a few of his own songs. Cool 4 Me, Stefan’s first single, came out on YouTube on August 23, 2019, and has been watched more than 523 thousand times since then. The song became South Africa’s number one hit, making him the youngest artist in the country’s history to do so.
On September 26, 2019, the official video for his song “Get Over You” was posted on his YouTube channel. It was filmed in New York, where he went to see the Video Music Awards and performed at an Arthur Ashe Kids Day event at the U.S. Open.
Say What’s in Your Eyes, his newest single, came out on YouTube on April 3, 2020. Prove ‘Em Wrong and Christmas are two of the other singles that he wrote himself.
Stefan Benz’s Instagram account, stefanbenzofficial, has more than 117 thousand followers. Stefan Benz’s self-titled YouTube account, which he started on September 4, 2018, has more than 5 million views and over 100,000 subscribers. With a little more than 50 thousand followers, his TikTok account, Stefan Benz, is not very popular.
He is managed by the talent agencies CAA (or Creative Artists Agency) in Los Angeles, California, and Hit Music Partners in New York. On his website, stefanbenzonline.com, you can buy his brand of hoodies, masks, T-shirts, and other clothes and accessories.
His eight-song set at the U.S. Open Arthur Ashe Kids Day included three of his songs and covers of songs by Queen and the Jonas Brothers, like Bohemian Rhapsody and Sucker.
Stefan Benz is very ambitious, and he wants to put out an original song every month until he has enough songs to put out an EP. He then plans to go on a world tour.
Relationships
Stefan Benz once said that the song “Cool 4 Me” was about a girl in middle school who was too good for him. In seventh grade, Stefan had a huge crush on a girl, but he never told anyone her name.
On April 24, 2020, Sarah Dorothy Little, a social media star, posted a video called “My First Date ROMANTIC | Sarah Dorothy Little ft. The video showed how she talked to her crush, Stefan, over a Zoom call since they couldn’t meet in person because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But no one knows anything for sure about Stefan’s relationships.
Stefan Benz as a Person
He hopes to be a guest on Jimmy Fallon and Ellen DeGeneres’ talk shows one day.
He only moved to the United States to help his music career. He wants to sing in his native language, which is Afrikaans. Shawn Mendes’s version of “In My Blood” in his native language, Portuguese, made him want to do this.
Stefan Benz has met Shawn Mendes on the red carpet at the VMAs, been to a party with Sabrina Carpenter, and worked with producer J.R. Rotem, who used to date Britney Spears. He has also been seen on the Grammy Awards red carpet. He is also known for the stylish clothes he wears to different events.
