Benson Boone

Benson Boone is one of those rare cases where the origin story actually makes the music make sense — a kid from Monroe, Washington who briefly stepped onto American Idol in 2021, then walked away on his own terms, built a following on TikTok, and signed with Night Street Records without anyone handing him anything. "Ghost Town" is what really got me, though: that falsetto has an almost old-soul ache to it that you wouldn't expect from someone born in 2002. He picked up NRJ Music Awards for both International Revelation and International Song of the Year in 2024, which feels like the world catching up to what his listeners already knew. Still barely in his early twenties and already sounding like someone who has something real to say — I'm genuinely curious where he goes from here.

Name (English)

Benson Boone

Name (Japanese)

ベンソン・ブーン

Reading

べんそん・ぶーん

Born

June 25, 2002 (age 24)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse

Origin

Monroe, Washington, United States

Occupation

singer

University

Brigham Young University–Idaho

Awards & achievements

• 2024 NRJ Music Award for International Revelation of the Year
• 2024 NRJ Music Award for International Song of the Year

• Official sitehttps://www.bensonboone.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bensonboone/
• Xhttps://x.com/bensonboone
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson%20Boone
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110008128

Tags

• Washington
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.