George Benson This Masquerade ( Nightmares On Wax JJP Mix)

George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a multiGrammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twentyone as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a pop, RB, and scat singer. This onetime child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the tripleplatinum album, Breezin . Benson uses a reststroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players. With the 1976 release of the album Breezin, Benson began to put his vocal on tracks such as This Masquerade. He had used his vocals infrequently on songs earlier in his career. Breezin was a significant album in terms of popular music history the first jazz release to go Platinum and the first indication that something new was about to happen. In 1976, Benson toured with soul singer, Minnie Riperton, who had been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer earlier that year. This Masquerade won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year.