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Benny Ray Hester (born May 3, 1948) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist. He is perhaps best known for his songs "When God Ran" and "Nobody Knows Me Like You", and for producing the groundbreaking tween/teen music-driven sketch comedy and dance television series Roundhouse on Nickelodeon. Hester received a television Cable Ace Award for the song "I Can Dream" and a collection of nominations for writing and producing a featured original song for each weekly episode of Roundhouse during its successful four-year run. He has written and recorded more than 25 number one and top ten songs.

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  • بيني هيستر (بالإنجليزية: Benny Hester)‏ هو مغن مؤلف ومغني أمريكي، ولد في 3 مايو 1948 في واكو في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Benny Ray Hester (born May 3, 1948) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist. He is perhaps best known for his songs "When God Ran" and "Nobody Knows Me Like You", and for producing the groundbreaking tween/teen music-driven sketch comedy and dance television series Roundhouse on Nickelodeon. Hester received a television Cable Ace Award for the song "I Can Dream" and a collection of nominations for writing and producing a featured original song for each weekly episode of Roundhouse during its successful four-year run. He has written and recorded more than 25 number one and top ten songs. Hester's recording of his song "When God Ran" touched the consciousness of Christians worldwide, and is one of the longest running number one songs in Contemporary Christian Music history, number one for 13 weeks, and the number three song in the 60-year history of Word Records. “When God Ran” continues to be rerecorded by artists in many languages and musical genres, including adult contemporary, pop, rock, R&B, alternative, and Southern Gospel, making it to the top of the charts repeatedly. The title track from his third album, "Nobody Knows Me Like You", reached number one on Christian Music Charts and became the first Contemporary Christian music song to break the Billboard Top 50 Adult Contemporary Chart, debuting at number 44 on November 7, 1981. Hester's first Contemporary Christian music singles, "Jesus Came Into My Life" and "Be A Receiver", were breakthrough recordings for radio, blurring the lines between pop, rock, and inspirational music, and becoming the first contemporary pop rock songs to be universally accepted and widely played across all Christian Radio formats. His 1978 self-titled debut album Benny Hester, re-released in 1982 as Be A Receiver, influenced the burgeoning Contemporary Christian music scene, and ranks among the first "Contemporary Christian Music" albums as the musical landscape shifted with the end of the Jesus Music era and the birth of the industry known as Contemporary Christian music. (en)
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  • 1965-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • 1948-05-03 (xsd:date)
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  • The Morticians, Hester & Hilton (en)
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  • Benny Ray Hester (en)
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  • Waco, Texas, U.S. (en)
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  • Hester receiving 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at Pepperdine University (en)
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  • CD (en)
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  • CD, LP (en)
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  • LP, VHS (en)
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  • Vocals (en)
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  • guitar (en)
  • bass guitar (en)
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  • Perfect (en)
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  • Legacy (en)
  • Through the Window (en)
  • Benny Hester (en)
  • Benny Hester - Singles (en)
  • Benny from Here (en)
  • Benny... (en)
  • Hosanna USA Live (en)
  • Nobody Knows Me Like You (en)
  • Personal Best (en)
  • The Iconic Male Voices of Christian Music (en)
  • United We Stand/Divided We Fall (en)
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  • Musician (en)
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  • music producer (en)
  • singer (en)
  • songwriter (en)
  • television producer (en)
  • recording artist (en)
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  • Various artists (en)
  • The Anaheim Convention Center Arena - Multiple artists (en)
  • Multiple artists (en)
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  • 80.0
  • "His 1985 album, Benny From Here, was a breakthrough effort by the Texas-bred singer, songwriter, and guitarist. It featured a fist full of hits including "To Fill Our Empty Hearts", "Whoever Touches You", "Can I Get To You From Here", "Secret Thoughts", and the smash single "When God Ran", a number one national hit for three months running. It's a track record of which the slight, soft-spoken 38-year-old can be justifiably proud and one that has elevated him, with a single stroke, to the top ranks of contemporary Christian recording artists." (en)
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  • —Davin Seay, CCM Magazine cover story, February 1987 (en)
  • —David Lowman, Salem Communications, October 2011 (en)
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  • New (en)
  • "Headlights on the Highway", "Before You Know It", "If You Die Before You Die", "Perfect", "Hungry World", "You Weren't Meant to Live Your Life Alone", "Two Good Reasons", "This One's for Keeping", "Passion, Possession, Position", "Shall We Gather at the River" (en)
  • "Good Night, Good Day", "Country Boy" (en)
  • "Jamaica Way", "Melody Man" (en)
  • Benny Hester, "Jamaica Way", with Jimmy Buffett, Tex Williams, Ray Stevens, and others (en)
  • "Close to Me", "Love is Made of This", "These Old Dreams", "Restless Nights", "Noonday Night", "You Can Have Mine", "Rain, Rain, Rain", "Too Bad She Didn't Want Me", "Too Blue", "Break Out", "Climbing Jacob's Ladder" (en)
  • Benny Hester, "When God Ran" (en)
  • "Secret Thoughts", "Streets of Las Vegas", "When God Ran", "Susie Said, Yeah!", "To Fill our Empty Hearts", "Back to Basics", "Can I Get to You From Here", "Whoever Touches You", "Marching On", "Hold Me" (en)
  • "Come Back", "No Man's Land", "Rubber Canoe", "Nobody Knows Me Like You", "Step By Step", "One More Time", "Goodbye, Salty", "Real Change", "You Loved Me", "Christ the Solid Rock" (en)
  • "Legacy", "Closer", "It Took So Long", "Melody Man", "Sensitive Heart", "Caught Away", "Out of the Natural", "Nobody's Listening", "Footprints", "These Things Were Done by You" (en)
  • "Give your love forever", "No, the end is not near", "Love never dies", "The bridge", "We all know he's coming", "The painter", "Malcombe", "What's happened to my friends", "Please let this be so", "Genevieve" (en)
  • "Be a Receiver", "Squeeze You", "Sure of Your Call", "Jesus Came Into My Life", "The Door", "Gonna Happen Here", "Only You", "Such a Relief", "All You Can Do", "We All Know He's Comin'" (en)
  • Benny Hester, "Jesus Came Into My Life", "We All Know He's Comin'" (en)
  • "Underground River", "Cat", "It's Over Love", "Remember Me", "The More I Enter In", "Wonderful Invention of Love", "Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again", "In Visible Silence", "Long Lost Heaven", "This is Me" (en)
  • "Nobody Knows Me Like You", "Be a Receiver", "Legacy", "Secret Thoughts", "Remember Me", "Jesus Came Into My Life", "Melody Man", "Out of the Natural", "Underground River", "Rubber Canoe", "Hold Me", "Whoever Touches You", "To Fill Our Empty Hearts", "Christ the Solid Rock", "When God Ran" (en)
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  • Compilation (en)
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  • 1965 (xsd:integer)
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  • بيني هيستر (بالإنجليزية: Benny Hester)‏ هو مغن مؤلف ومغني أمريكي، ولد في 3 مايو 1948 في واكو في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Benny Ray Hester (born May 3, 1948) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist. He is perhaps best known for his songs "When God Ran" and "Nobody Knows Me Like You", and for producing the groundbreaking tween/teen music-driven sketch comedy and dance television series Roundhouse on Nickelodeon. Hester received a television Cable Ace Award for the song "I Can Dream" and a collection of nominations for writing and producing a featured original song for each weekly episode of Roundhouse during its successful four-year run. He has written and recorded more than 25 number one and top ten songs. (en)
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  • Benny Hester (en)
  • بيني هيستر (ar)
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