Bensusan is an uncommon guitarist, who has no problem playing three parts in a couple of different time signatures in a song.

Guitarist Pierre Bensusan creates a gentle mood on this, his tenth solo album. Applying fingerstyle technique to soft ballads and lyrical ramblings, he sets his original compositions on the table for ...

French-Algerian acoustic guitar virtuoso, vocalist and composer Pierre Bensusan will once again tour North America. In early 2020, Bensusan was in the USA, ready to play both Charlotte and ...

Among several facets Pierre Bensusan brings into play on the guitar are the influences he has absorbed and the technical skills he brings to bear. The latter sees him use fingertapping and harmonics, ...

Born in Oran, French-Algeria, in 1957, when France was decolonizing its Empire, Pierre Bensusan's family moved to Paris when he was 4. He began formal studies on piano at the age of 7 and at 11 ...

Although Bensusan has known the guitar would be his full-fledged lifestyle since he was just 12 years old, this version of himself never pictured the years of musical globetrotting that were to come.

Born in French Algeria, Pierre Bensusan is an adventurer of unusual lands. His almost “sacred” music is an intimate and orchestral hymn, a solo crossing on a multi-shell Lowden guitar subjected to the ...

The song went to number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was the only hit in 1984 to spend a week topping the charts. The following year it was nominated for a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal ...

As part of his 50th anniversary North American “One Guitar-One Voice” tour, multi-award winning acoustic guitar virtuoso, vocalist and composer Pierre Bensusan will perform at 7:30 p.m. June ...