About this artist
Spanish bass player, born March 1, 1954 in Barcelona.
Benavent's greatest contribution to music is to have given a major role to bass guitar in flamenco music with the Paco de Lucia Sextet in the 1980's. He's played too with , and .
At 13 he founded the blues trio Crac (2) with (drums) and (guitar). In 1969 the three of them joined to refound Máquina. In 1975 he founded Música Urbana with (piano, clarinet), Salvador Font and (guitar).
He has also played with a lot of Spanish jazz-rock musicians, including , , and .