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Benny Andersen

Benny Allan Andersen (1929–2018) was a Danish pianist, songwriter, poet and author born in Vangede, Denmark. His family bought a piano before he turned ten, and he learned to play it, later working as a bar pianist. He published his first poetry collection, Den musikalske ål, in 1960. He had particular success with the 1972 song novel Svantes viser, whose album version, recorded with Povl Dissing, sold over 57,000 copies and was later placed in the Danish Culture Canon in 2006. Andersen continued to record and perform with Dissing, releasing Oven visse vande (1981), Hymner og ukr...